6 women targeted by serial rapist sue Hinge, Tinder

She met him on Hinge.

The two gathered for drinks in Denver’s Highland neighborhood in January 2023. Two shots later, Alexa said she was “completely intoxicated” at a level that did not match the number of drinks she had. She remembers tripping up the stairs to his apartment, but that’s where her memory of the night ends.

She slowly pieced together what happened with her ruined clothes, home security camera footage, medical testing and social media sleuthing, Alexa said.

Alexa is one of more than a dozen women who reported being assaulted by convicted serial rapist Dr. Stephen Matthews between 2019 and 2023. The former Denver cardiologist used dating apps to target and lure women, prosecutors said.

The Denver Post is withholding Alexa’s full name because it does not identify victims of sexual assault.

Matthews was convicted in August 2024 on 35 felony counts of assault and sexual assault and sentenced to 158 years in prison two months later.

Now, some of his victims are...