In his profile on the Vancouver-based Internet dating site Plenty of Fish, 26-year-old Calvin Bennett said he was "tired of being single" and wanted "someone who likes me for me and not what I have."
What Bennett didn't mention is that what he had was a warrant out for his arrest in the brutal double-slaying of an elderly couple in Nashville, Ark., on Oct. 30.
On Sunday, Bennett was arrested by police in Rothschild, Wis., after being profiled on the TV show America's Most Wanted the night before.
He was caught, in part, with the help of Plenty of Fish's founder and lone employee Markus Frind -- who used Bennett's message traffic on the site to help track him down.
Frind -- who operates Plenty of Fish from his downtown Vancouver apartment -- said he got an e-mail from the U.S. Marshals Service at 8:16 p.m. Saturday.
They told him that someone watching the show had called to tell them they saw Bennett's picture on Plenty of Fish.
Using the profile name the marshals provided -- "shysothernguy80" [sic] -- Frind said he began combing through the messages Bennett had sent to other users.
They showed that Bennett had been sending messages to various women as he travelled north from Arkansas.
Frind said Bennett told some women he was in the military and others that he was a police officer.
"He was sending messages to women trying to get them to contact him," said Frind.
Most troubling, it appeared from the messages that one of those women had agreed to let Bennett stay at her place after chatting with him only a few times.
"He was staying with a woman from Wisconsin," said Frind. "He drove to meet her and moved in with her."
He checked that woman's profile and realized that both Bennett and the woman had recently logged into Plenty of Fish using the same Internet Protocol address -- meaning they were visiting his site using the same computer.
Frind wasn't able to figure out the woman's phone number or address from the messages she sent, but was able to give police the phone numbers of other people she had contacted.
"I was able to give the marshals a lot of information about where [Bennett] was staying and where he was," said Frind.
Sgt. Jeremy Hunt of the Rothschild Police said police moved in on a house around noon Sunday and arrested Bennett.
"He was taken into custody without any incident," Hunt said.
Frind said he spoke with the U.S. marshals on Sunday, following Bennett's arrest, and they thanked him for his help.
"They told me it was vital information," he said. "Basically they had no idea where he was until I . . . gave them all the numbers and the information."
Bennett's profile has been removed from the site, Frind said.
On his dating profile, Bennett said he was "looking for a sweet and nice woman."
"I'm just a shy guy from the south wanting to be with someone who loves me just as much as I love them," he wrote.
Asked to describe a typical first date, he wrote: "A nice romantic dinner with soft music, followed by a romantic walk or maybe a carriage ride, and some nice conversation, and some cuddeling [sic] because I love to cuddle."
Bennett is wanted in connection with the killing of Pierce Odell, 79 and his wife Mary Odell, 78.
Police allege Bennett shot each of them once in the head and then tied a rope to their legs and dragged them 100 metres into the woods using the couple's four-wheeler.
He then allegedly placed a plastic bag over each of their heads and went back to the house to clean up.
Police believe the motivation for the killings was robbery -- Pierce's wallet and Mary's purse were missing along with their grey 2001 Chevy Silverado pickup truck.
Hunt said Sunday that a grey Chevy Silverado was parked in front of the house police raided Sunday.
Plenty of Fish gets about a million visitors a day and is one of the most popular Internet dating sites in the world.
Frind said he's not worried about the bad publicity Bennett's case may attract.
"When you're dealing with millions of people, it's bound to happen," he said.
"It's like getting struck by lightning."
He said nothing like this has happened on the site before.
Frind was never served with a search warrant and voluntarily looked through Bennett and his girlfriend's message traffic.
He said he wouldn't hesitate to look at a user's private messages again "if a crime has been committed or someone is in danger."