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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @07:56AM
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
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 mi² 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
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
No real American would ever speak like that, right [yourlogicalfallacyis.com]?