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The Washington Post reports that an internet escort in Charleston, W.Va., may have saved her own life and the lives of many other women, when she shot and killed an alleged attacker who showed up at the woman's home on July 18 after answering an escort ad she had placed on Backpage.com. Neal Falls showed up with multiple pairs of handcuffs and a Subaru full of weapons and tools, including a shovel, knives, a bulletproof vest, a machete, bleach, trash bags, sledgehammers and axes. In Falls's pocket, police said, was a list of names of potential future victims, all of whom are sex workers who advertised on Backpage. Investigators are trying to determine whether Falls is responsible for a string of slayings targeting sex workers in Ohio and Nevada. "We are entering his DNA profile into CODIS, which is a national crime DNA database, to see if it matches any previous submissions from anywhere in the United States," says Steve Cooper, the Charleston Police Department's chief of detectives. "If his DNA has been located in any other crimes and his profile was entered into CODIS, there will be a match."
From the moment Falls showed up at the home of his latest alleged victim, he turned violent. "I knew he was there to kill me," says the victim who asked not to be identified. Falls pulled a gun on her and began strangling her. "When he strangled me he just wouldn't let me get any air. I grabbed my rake and when he laid the gun down to get the rake out of my hands, I shot him. I just grabbed the gun and shot behind me." Local authorities are treating the shooting as an act of self-defense. According to Cooper, "when we find multiple sets of handcuffs, a machete, an axe, a bulletproof vest and container of bleach, the first thing that comes to an investigator's mind is, 'This is a serial killer kit.'"
(Score: 1) by m2o2r2g2 on Monday July 27 2015, @05:04AM
Sounds cold blooded but...
Apart from the fact the ad was on an internet page rather than a local newspaper, how is this tech/science news?
There are already too many depressing stories about the worst of mankind in mainstream news. Please leave them there. A woman on the other side of the planet shooting a man in self defence is not relevant for most people
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:11AM
You know, it's just "special". Involved a Subaru.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @06:25AM
I also noticed the Subaru in the way that the serial murderer did not use the usual serial murderer vehicle: Volkswagen Bus.
And why is the Subaru important here? Does it mean serial murderers are moving to a Japanese brand?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:38AM
Soylent is people. This is a people story. If you want tech news go to the green site with the shills and aptly colored astroturfers.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Monday July 27 2015, @02:24PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:42PM
SN isn't a tech/science-exclusive site, so I fail to understand how your question is relevant.