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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @06:37AM
> If it was legal, there would probably be wider acceptance. Sure, you'd have some moralists, but they'll frown on beer too so fuck 'em.
Lol, shows how much you know about women. It isn't about morality, its about it being gross.
> From an old fart to you young ones: marriage is not about love. It is about property.
Once upon a time that was true. Not anymore. Love marriages are the norm, especially since women are no longer chattel and are nearing earning parity to men. Nowadays they have just as much to lose in a divorce as a man.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:43AM
"love marriages" are a misnomer. You'll see exactly how much marriage is about property when you go to get divorced. Let's just say you worked for years building a business while at home, you're spouse just refused to work. You just paid half of all your life efforts to get absolutely nothing. Marriage is fine if both parties contribute because you get your half back. But when one is a lazy slob, you get fucked, and totally not in a good way.
Anyway, you just keep on thinking marriage is about love. My advice stands for anyone who works. If you're a lazy bum, marriage is great deal.
(Score: 3, Touché) by TheRaven on Monday July 27 2015, @09:42AM
Let's just say you worked for years building a business while at home, you're spouse just refused to work. You just paid half of all your life efforts to get absolutely nothing. Marriage is fine if both parties contribute because you get your half back. But when one is a lazy slob, you get fucked, and totally not in a good way.
Indeed. And it's a big problem that you basically have to marry someone as soon as you meet them. If only there were some way by which you could get to know a potential partner a bit and discover if they are a complete leach before marrying them. I know! We should legalise premarital cohabitation!
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Monday July 27 2015, @02:16PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @03:30PM
Your problem is equating exceptional cases to the common case. There will always be bad actors. But anyone who thinks that the normal motivation for marriage is property has completely missed social progress over the last century. Divorce is about property because there are shared assets that have been accrued during the partnership, but marriage is not any more.