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posted by CoolHand on Monday July 27 2015, @03:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the backpage-bada$$ dept.

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.'"


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:08AM (#214090)

    You do know that people from the US don't call it the "USA" and certainly don't chant it any more than every German is a Nazi or every person from the UK is a genocidal imperialist, right?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:47AM (#214112)

    You've obviously never been to the USA. They certainly do call it the "USA" and chant it like genocidal imperialists.

    • (Score: 1) by redneckmother on Monday July 27 2015, @05:54AM

      by redneckmother (3597) on Monday July 27 2015, @05:54AM (#214116)

      uhhh... "They", as in "Everyone"? I call "shenanigans".

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      Mas cerveza por favor.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @06:08AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @06:08AM (#214130)

        Don't be obtuse.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 27 2015, @06:04AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 27 2015, @06:04AM (#214127) Journal

      I call bullshit. The only place I've ever heard people chanting "USA USA" is on Youtube.

      Of course, I've only been in the US for about 55 years or so. I spent the other 4 years overseas, so I can't really claim to know a whole lot about the USA.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @06:33AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @06:33AM (#214141)

        > The only place I've ever heard people chanting "USA USA" is on Youtube.

        It is everywhere. Sporting events, political rallies, political protests, when bin laden was killed, 4th of july, etc.

        The fact that you see it on youtube is proof of that, not counter-proof.
        When I do a search for "usa chant" on youtube, I get 149,000 hits. Even if half them are dupes or something else, that's still a fuckton of jingoism.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:53AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:53AM (#214171)

          Search Germans are Nazis. You will get more hits.

          Search English war crimes. Same result.

          Search 911 was an inside job.

          See the pattern?

          Now please stop making a fool of yourself. Obviously you lack higher education and know nothing of Americans but choose to be bigoted about your views anyway.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @03:38PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @03:38PM (#214364)

            > See the pattern?

            The only pattern I see is that none of your examples are recordings of those actual things happening. Don't confuse people talking about something on camera with people actually doing it on camera.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:36PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:36PM (#214429)

              Yep. Repeatedly confirmed bigot. Don't even bother to listen to this idiot that can't even figure out markup language.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:55PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:55PM (#214440)

                Repeatedly confirmed bigot.

                Where did that happen? Is there a bunch of missing posts I can't see? Nice ad hominem btw, real classy.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @09:47PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @09:47PM (#214562)

                  A bigot is a person that refuses to change beliefs, prejudices, and hatred when evidence to the contrary is provided. Person A makes a claim. Person B refutes them. Person A ignores evidence and continues their claim. Person A is a bigot. No ad hominem, in fact the opposite. I am saying that he is so hatefully irrational, he does not even recognize (or worse, accept) when proven wrong.

                  This has happened several times in a row just on this thread. Note the lack of knowledge in markup language and "quoting" people with a ">". A clear signature as that is not a social norm on news sites. Using markup language is.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:26PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:26PM (#215111)

        I saw it after gay marriage was legalized. I saw it when Bin Laden was killed. Etc.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:56AM (#214172)

      Again calling it the USA. It is the US. I live here. I was born here. Don't even pretend to understand our culture more than us. Clearly I hit a sore spot with the comment on the UK. It was your nation that started the slave trade. It was your nation that caused genocide. It is your nation that has been calling for the US to be more militarily active in the world for an entire century.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:59PM (#214442)

        Again calling it the USA. It is the US. I live here. I was born here.

        Wow, me too! But unlike you, I'm smart enough to know that the USA is a big enough place that people have different dialects in different states and don't all act exactly the same everywhere; 319 million people is a lot of people, and 3.8 million miĀ² is a really big area. Maybe you're so isolated you've never seen the psychotic "USA, USA!" chants, but the USA is a big fucking place. Try going outside of your mom's basement every now and then.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @09:52PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @09:52PM (#214563)

          Such anger. Much projection. All lies.

          Again with quintessential non-american behavior, or should I say behaviour. Nobody that lives here needs to lookup wikipedia to know the population or size of the US. (hint, Americans don't use "million miles square" they use "across" as in 3000 miles across. and nobody here believes the official pop count. It was over 330 mil fifteen years ago.)

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:17AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:17AM (#214614)

            No real American would ever speak like that, right [yourlogicalfallacyis.com]?