If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENTA Florida man is behind bars awaiting trial after allegedly killing a young woman who traveled from the United Kingdom to pay him to carry out their plan for her to be "sexually abused, tortured, and murdered," court records show.Sonia Exelby of Portsmouth, England, was reported missing in October 2025 by her family when she failed to return home from a trip to the United States, records show.Text communications to one of Exelby’s friends suggest she’d regretted her decision and wanted to back out of the deal she’d allegedly made with Hall to torture and kill her, records show.FLORIDA MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY LURED WOMEN WITH DATING APP COULD HAVE MORE VICTIMS: AUTHORITIESSonia Exelby of Portsmouth, England, right, was found in a shallow grave with stab wounds in Ocala, Florida.Dwain Hall, left, has been charged in her killing.
(Marion County Sheriff's Office / Facebook)But it apparently was too late.Days later, investigators found her body in a shallow grave in a wooded area in Ocala, Florida.Now 54-year-old Dwain Hall of Ocala, Florida, faces charges of premeditated, first-degree murder and kidnapping.His trial is scheduled for Nov.
5 in Marion County, Florida.In 2023, Hall and Exelby met on a "fetish website" where they discussed "bondage, suicide, and her desire to have someone kill her," according to court records.Hall, a self-described sadist, allegedly started what he described as a process of "mentoring" Exelby, investigators who reviewed their messages said.A Facebook page attributed to Hall shows a fascination with Anubis, said to be the Egyptian god of the underworld.In the year leading up to her death, Exelby offered to "help Hall with money he owed to the IRS," their online conversation showed, according to investigators.They allegedly agreed that Exelby would pay him $4,000 cash to pay his d...