Man discovers his Husband Murdered a man on Grindr: Case of Kevin Bacon

Behind You

Hailey Elizabeth

True Crime

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Last year, it was recorded that 28% of people who got married in 2024 met on dating apps. In this day and age it’s a big part of how people meet and gives people an easier way to communicate and get to know a person before meeting them in person. But on dating apps, they are open to the public gives access to anyone who wants to make an account. And on a popular dating app called Grindr, is where 56 y/o Mark Lutanski would spend most of his time. He was married to his husband, had 4 kids but had been fantasizing for years the idea of murder. And in 2019 on Grindr, is when Mark would meet 26 y/o Kevin Bacon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?
0:07.4	Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.
0:13.8	Silly bookers?
0:14.8	Well, enjoy those cues at the bar.
0:17.1	Stop booking around and visit Onthebeach.com.
0:21.3	Conditions apply.
0:22.6	Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports from six people at all protected.
0:28.7	So in the late afternoon, Christmas Eve Day of 2019, the Swartz Creek, Michigan Police would get a phone call from a local family making a missing
0:39.1	person's report on 25-year-old hairdresser Kevin Richard Bacon. Kevin's family goes on to say that
0:46.9	the last time they saw Kevin was the day before on Christmas Eve when all of them were having
0:51.5	dinner. And Kevin actually mentioned that he was going out on a date
0:55.5	afterwards. And Kevin was supposed to be at the family home on Christmas Day around 9 a.m. to have
1:02.0	Christmas morning breakfast, but Kevin never showed up. So the family started to call and text, but was
1:08.1	met with no response. So then Kevin's family goes on to tell the police that
1:12.2	Kevin is actually gay and he meets a lot of men on dating apps and that is actually where he met
1:18.5	this man that he was meeting up with on Christmas Eve night. And this actually reminded the police
1:23.9	of something that had happened a month prior to all of this, where the police had actually
1:28.8	got a random phone call from a person that said that they saw a young man who was naked
1:35.0	and dressed in nothing but a leather kilt, and he was running away from this old man that was
1:40.8	chasing after him. And this man that was dressed in the leather kill actually made it to safety and was able
1:46.6	to get a hold of the police.
1:48.2	This meeting, I met at the bus station.
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