According to cops, the tryst had been booked on backpages. Destination: Morgue. The year-old punter had attacked and choked the escort but the quick-thinking would-be victim turned the tables, grabbed his gun off the ground and squeezed the trigger twice, sending him to oblivion. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way.
If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Your Midday Sun will soon be in your inbox. We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again. Steve Cooper, Charleston chief of detectives, told reporters. Neal Falls grew up poor in Eugene, Oregon in a brood of 10 children with an abusive father. The family drifted around the state moving from one luckless locale to the next. Friends liked him but he was developing a taste for guns and military paraphernalia.
Like his parents before him, he fell into dead-end low-wage jobs. By the mids, he was spending a lot of time with sex workers at hot-sheet motels. Once, he even travelled to the Philippines for sex tourism. With Falls dead as a doornail, detectives began looking into his background and were shocked. All were online escorts.
Not only that, cops revealed that the dead man had been stopped, interviewed, or investigated by police in at least 20 states. Detectives were now looking into possible links to unsolved disappearances or slayings of women around the U. Investigators began working backwards, looking at his suspected modus operandi and tracing his movements across three states. During that time a number of sex workers vanished. Three were later found dismembered in Nevada, California and Illinois.
Falls is the prime suspect. Across the U. Her rental car was discovered abandoned 30 minutes from the Vegas strip. Three years later, she was identified via parts of a leg discovered 2, km away near Springfield, Ill. And there were scores of other slain sex workers investigators linked to Falls, who had been living in his car at the time of his death.
