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Woman Kills Attacker w/His Gun; Was a Serial Killer Targeting Sex Workers

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Syriel

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Update: The deceased attacker may be linked to at least 10 other deaths and/or unexplained disappearances by police.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...inia-could-be-linked-10-other-attacks-n398716

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Big props to the unnamed woman in the story. She probably saved a number of lives.

An unnamed woman in Charleston, West Virginia, has become an unexpected heroine to sex workers everywhere. This after having a real-life Dexter as a client.

Acccording to Charleston police and the woman's own interview with KPTV, she realized that something was wrong shortly after 45-year-old Springfield, Oregon, native Neal Falls arrived at her apartment after answering an escort ad she'd placed on Backpage.com.
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When Falls began to strangle her, she said, she reached for a nearby rake. Falls put down his gun to try and wrestle the rake out of her hands—that's when she grabbed the gun and shot him. Falls died from the gunshot wound, and she ran outside to get help.

When police arrived, they found an extensive "kill kit" in the trunk of Falls's Subaru. In the trunk were knives, a shovel, a machete, several axes, a sledgehammer, a pair of hiking boots covered in dirt, trash bags, and cleaning supplies.

In Falls's pocket, said police, they found a list of names of future targets: all sex workers who advertised on Backpage. Police have not released the names, or the exact amount, of women on the list.
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Chillicothe is a small town of only 21,000 people, and six women went missing within the space of a year. Four were found dead, and the other two were still missing as of a June CNN report.

Police in the town oddly scoffed at the idea of a serial killer, but locals told CNN that's exactly what had happened. Most of the women knew each other from the same drug rehab, and many had engaged in sex work. All four deceased women were found in or near bodies of water, one wrapped in a sheet and another shot in the head.

Sex workers have long accused law enforcement of not taking cases seriously when their community is targeted by violent serial offenders. When Gary Ridgway—also known as the Green River Killer—finally confessed in 2003 to the murders of at least 48 women throughout the Northwest, he admitted that he thought no one would notice if he killed sex workers.
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For now, the unnamed woman who shot and killed Neal Falls in self-defense stands as an example of bravery and survival in an often dark climate of violence against sex workers. For that, she's a sort of sex worker superhero.
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Source:
http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/serial-killer-attack-killed-virginia/
 
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Alucrid

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holy shit. pretty sure i heard on the news that the cops said that there was no indication of it being the work of a serial killer.
 
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Kieli

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I feel like legitimizing and regulating prostitution (because it's going to happen regardless) will help alleviate some of the violence faced by its workers. The stigma on sex and one's ability to sell it (with consent and full knowledge of the ramifications) is completely stupid.

I know some countries have, but I haven't read up on the results and impact.
 
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andymcc

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Alucrid said:
holy shit. pretty sure i heard on the news that the cops said that there was no indication of it being the work of a serial killer.
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There had been a string of murders in (sorta nearby) Chillicothe, OH that targeted addicted women.

That being said, a few of my friends knew some of the girls that were missing/killed from Chillicothe and, judging Facebook, most of them doubt it's related to this guy... Even if local police want to link it.
 
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kirblar

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Alucrid said:
holy shit. pretty sure i heard on the news that the cops said that there was no indication of it being the work of a serial killer.
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Can't be having any high-IQ people messing things up!
Kieli said:
I feel like legitimizing and regulating prostitution (because it's going to happen regardless) will help alleviate some of the violence faced by its workers. The stigma on sex and one's ability to sell it (with consent and full knowledge of the ramifications) is completely stupid.

I know some countries have, but I haven't read up on the results and impact.
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When Rhode Island accidentally legalized indoor prostitution for a time, rape rates fell.
 
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Hero_of_the_Day

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How the fuck do you have four people turn up dead who are connected through a rehab and sex work, and still refuse to entertain the thought that it's a serial killer?

Also, I always think how insane it must be for the killers family. Knowing they probably had no idea, he probably seemed as normal as we do to our families. And then, boom, turns out he's a serial killer. How do you even process that?
 
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Hackworth

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Nice work.
How the fuck do you have four people turn up dead who are connected in a way, and still refuse to entertain the thought that it's a serial killer?
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If the US is anything like the UK, cops don't give a fuck about sexworkers.
 
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hwalker84

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chaobreaker said:
Dexter killed serial killers, not innocent people.
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Maybe the shamalamadingdong ending is she was a serial killer he was hunting

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unholyrevenger72

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Hey NRA, the answer to gun violence isn't more Guns, it's unarmed combat that teaches people to take guns from assailants and kill the assailant with their own weapon.
 
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Valhelm

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As far as I can tell, this is the first time a serial killer has ever been killed by somebody they were trying to murder. This woman is a hero.
 
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Amir0x

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chaobreaker said:
Dexter killed serial killers, not innocent people.
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That's not even totally true. Multiple times he ended up killing complete innocents in the show.

Of course the writers were so abysmal they made Dexter have virtually no consequence for doing so, but it happened. Once he did it out of pure rage.
 
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SwiftDeath

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This is a great end to a horrific story.

Local police don't sound overly competent unfortunately :(

Hope they don't try to charge her with prostitution
 
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InaudibleWhispa

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Hackworth said:
Nice work.
If the US is anything like the UK, cops don't give a fuck about sexworkers.
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Yeah I recently watched an HBO documentary called Tales of the Grim Sleeper about a guy killing sex workers in LA. It was shocking how little was done, despite a trail of people who could have lead them to him. It took them nearly 20 years to announce his existence, and only because their hand was forced by a reporter. They didn't warn anybody, they didn't ask for help in the investigation which resulted in several survivors afraid to go to the police (several of which knew his address as he often did his business in his garage). They had his voice on tape in the 80's and didn't show the public until 2009. A woman in the documentary claims she took a police officer to his street but mistakenly pointed out the wrong house (two doors down from his house; and his car, which they knew the make and color of). They even arrested him for another crime, but mistakenly didn't take his DNA which would have got him.
 
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chaobreaker

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Amir0x said:
That's not even totally true. Multiple times he ended up killing complete innocents in the show.

Of course the writers were so abysmal they made Dexter have virtually no consequence for doing so, but it happened. Once he did it out of pure rage.
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Hey man, I hated post-season 4 Dexter just like everyone else. I'm just saying it was his MO to kill serial killers but sometimes he (or the writers) fucks up.
 
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Crossing Eden

Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
When police arrived, they found an extensive "kill kit" in the trunk of Falls's Subaru. In the trunk were knives, a shovel, a machete, several axes, a sledgehammer, a pair of hiking boots covered in dirt, trash bags, and cleaning supplies.
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O.O She saved a ton of lives.
 
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Arkeband

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InaudibleWhispa said:
Yeah I recently watched an HBO documentary called Tales of the Grim Sleeper about a guy killing sex workers in LA. It was shocking how little was done, despite a trail of people who could have lead them to him. It took them nearly 20 years to announce his existence, and only because their hand was forced by a reporter. They didn't warn anybody, they didn't ask for help in the investigation which resulted in several survivors afraid to go to the police (several of which knew his address as he often did his business in his garage). They had his voice on tape in the 80's and didn't show the public until 2009. A woman in the documentary even claims she took a police officer to his street but mistakenly pointed out the wrong house (two doors down from his house; and his car, which they knew the make and color of).
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Yeah, that was a pretty good doc, surprisingly kept me hooked until the end.

The worst serial killers will always be the ones you never hear or know about.
 
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Hackworth

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InaudibleWhispa said:
Yeah I recently watched an HBO documentary called Tales of the Grim Sleeper about a guy killing sex workers in LA. It was shocking how little was done, despite a trail of people who could have lead them to him. It took them nearly 20 years to announce his existence, and only because their hand was forced by a reporter. They didn't warn anybody, they didn't ask for help in the investigation which resulted in several survivors afraid to go to the police (several of which knew his address as he often did his business in his garage). They had his voice on tape in the 80's and didn't show the public until 2009. A woman in the documentary claims she took a police officer to his street but mistakenly pointed out the wrong house (two doors down from his house; and his car, which they knew the make and color of). They even arrested him for another crime, but mistakenly didn't take his DNA which would have got him.
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Fuck that got even worse than my cynical self expected it would be.
 
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Acorn

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InaudibleWhispa said:
Yeah I recently watched an HBO documentary called Tales of the Grim Sleeper about a guy killing sex workers in LA. It was shocking how little was done, despite a trail of people who could have lead them to him. It took them nearly 20 years to announce his existence, and only because their hand was forced by a reporter. They didn't warn anybody, they didn't ask for help in the investigation which resulted in several survivors afraid to go to the police (several of which knew his address as he often did his business in his garage). They had his voice on tape in the 80's and didn't show the public until 2009. A woman in the documentary claims she took a police officer to his street but mistakenly pointed out the wrong house (two doors down from his house; and his car, which they knew the make and color of). They even arrested him for another crime, but mistakenly didn't take his DNA which would have got him.
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Jesus christ, disgusting.
 
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