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A Match made in hell: suit

A Las Vegas woman is suing Match.com for $10 million for setting her up with a date who left her horrifically wounded after trying to stab her to death.

Mary Kay Beckman, 50, said she’s lucky to be alive after the popular online dating service brought Wade Mitchell Ridley into her life.

Beckman, a real-estate agent, said they had their first date in September 2010 and she broke it off with him eight days later.

In response, Ridley sent her several threatening messages, she said.

Then, on Jan. 21, 2011, Ridley, 53, hid in her garage until she came home.

He stabbed Beckman 10 times with such force that the knife broke, she said.

“I shouldn’t even be here today,” she told reporters after filing the lawsuit.

After stabbing her, Ridley kicked and stomped on her head until she “stopped making the gurgling noise” and he thought she was dead, says her lawsuit, filed in Clark County Court in Nevada.

Beckman, who had begun to use Match.com just a month before she met Ridley, sued the site for negligence, deceptive trade and failure to warn her about potential dangers.

The dating service misled her into believing it would provide a “stable and loving relationship with another member,” her suit says.

Instead, it led her to “an individual whose intentions are not to find a mate but to find victims to kill or rape.”

Match.com blasted the lawsuit.

“What happened to Mary Kay Beckman is horrible, but this lawsuit is absurd,” the company said.

“This is about a sick, twisted individual with no prior criminal record, not an entire community of men and woman looking to meet each other.”

Ridley was arrested a month after attacking Beckman for killing another Match.com date, Anne Simenson, 62. He committed suicide in prison last year.

In addition to the $10 million in damages, Beckman’s suit seeks to require Match.com to display a warning on dating dangers.