It works like this: you chat wit a woman and send pictures and tell her your innermost secrets and she has so much in common with you. She invites you to move two thousand miles to be with her. You sit down to a glass of wine after you arrive to be with this lovely woman, and she hits you on the head with a baseball bat and tries to kill you.
I bet that he has been sending her money during their on-line "dating" relationship. Now he wanted to actually consummate the relationship by something more. . . er, intimate than money. Ain't gonna happen.
His photos he was sending her probably showed that he was six foot six, 180, and handsome as a movie star, but the man who showed up was Five foot five, 280, and looked like a hobo. . . and she had a bat of buyers remorse.
Sheeshe! When I did all that all she did was feed me some turkey and pie.