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Feb 9, 2006 6:11 pm US/Eastern
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Internet Dating Turns Deadly In Baltimore County
by Suzanne Collins
BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) ―
WJZ's Suzanne Collins reports that the man charged with killing a 27-year-old woman he met on the Internet remains held without bail today.
Police say UMBC student John Christopher Gaumer, 22 admitted to killing Josie Phyllis Brown after taking her on a date Dec. 28.
Brown, of the 3500-block of Buena Vista Lane, was reported missing last month in Baltimore City. Her body was found Tuesday night off a highway ramp in Arbutus.
Police say Gaumer, who used to play football for LaPlata High School in his hometown of Waldorf, became a suspect in Brown's disappearance after admitting he killed her.
Gaumer told police he and Brown started arguing in his car, and he later left her on the ramp from southbound Interstate 95 to the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway. Gaumer told police that after he returned, there was another argument, and he admitted throwing Brown down an embankment and beating her.
"I think it's horrible," Brown's friend Traci Scott told
WJZ's Collin. "I mean, she probably had her hopes up to find someone decent and what he did to her was horrible."
Eyewitness News learns Brown was evicted from her Hampden duplex last summer. Neighbors say they had not seen Brown until they learned the news about her death.
"He [Gaumer] was always a very nice guy," Gaumer's former roomate Oliver Baranczyk told WJZ's Collins.
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