Exclusive | LAs serial Tinder rapist could walk free after less than a year in prison, outraging actress victim: He has no soul
A convicted serial rapist who stalked his prey on Tinder could walk free this October after serving less than a year in prison — and one of his victims “terrified” after her 11-year battle to lock him up.“The Office” actress Shira Scott Astrof is one of the at least half a dozen women in Los Angeles that Matthew Werner has been accused of catfishing on dating apps and brutally sexually assaulting.Werner, 49, is up for parole in October, only nine months after being sentenced to four years in prison, according to online records.“It’s like a never-ending battle, and it shouldn’t be this hard,” Astrof told The Post.“There’s no justice system here.
We have to be our own advocate.”Astrof, whose credits include “Criminal Minds,” met Werner, who’s originally from Massachusetts, on the online dating app in 2015, except he was masquerading as Sebastian Larsson, a soccer star from Sweden.On the day of their scheduled date, Astrof said she wasn’t feeling well and Werner offered to bring soup to her apartment.She said he was nice at first, but then brazenly revealed he brought cocaine and allegedly did a line in front of her.Then he attacked her from behind, Astrof recalled.He choked her and dislocated her shoulder during the horrific assault — leaving her on the floor as he walked out.“He’s a coward that has to attack you when your back is turned,” Astrof said.“He has no soul.” She reported the attack to police immediately and was rushed to the hospital.
Astrof said that in the years to come, she was told by Los Angeles County officials that her case wasn’t strong enough on its own, and that she’d need another one of his victims to come forward to testify alongside her.Police eventually tied Werner to at least half a dozen rapes across Los Angeles County, according to news reports at the time.He was finally arrested in 2023 in Las Vegas.Authorities believe there were several other victims who did not report the heinous assaults...