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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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:28AM
by selling their bodies. A particularly well known one in Naples put both her children through university that way.
I know three different strippers who are very devoted mothers to their children. Two have four, the other just one, still an infant.
I met a graduate student when she offered me a Private Dance at a gentlemen's club.
The very first female I ever met who knew about conway's game of life was also a stripper. I did pay for her private show.
For quite a long time I puzzled iver all the young portland women who know about conway's life. Turns out PSU comouter science and electrical engineering are into it.
I purchased the wares of a completely legal swiss lady of the evening who owns a manor on a countryside estate. Unfortunately for me, when I responded to her ad because she "speaks English", I took that to mean that we could have a nice chat as well.
Prostitution is legal in England but I dont care to have English spoken to me anymore.
It is legal in Canada.
It is legal in the rural parts of Nevada.
It is legal in Mexico. I know this because five of my mother's friends hoped to spend the daybshopping in Tijuana butnthey police arrested them all, then forced them to purchase prostitution licenses.
It was legal in japan until it was occupied by the US after world war II. It is still widely practiced there but I understand it is hard for Americans to obtain.
America was founded by religious zealots. We dont make sense to people from other countries.
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(Score: 2) by Francis on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:12PM
I'm not surprised that there are some, I'm sure there are also hitmen that do it to put their children through school. I know that during the days of the Jewish Mafia that a lot of that was focused on getting their kids better opportunity. Which is a large part of why it largely doesn't exist in the US any more. No clue as to whether or not it exists in other parts of the world.
Anyways, people like to trot out these examples as if they're the norm, and I have a really hard time buying that. People like that would be very hard to prosecute and would probably not even be worth the effort.