They called police, who quickly found three others nearby. Two women were out for an afternoon walk near Atlantic City in November 2006 when they found a body in a ditch. "I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught," he said. Gary Ridgway, the so-called Green River killer convicted of 49 killings in Washington state, said at during a 2003 court hearing in which he pleaded guilty that he chose sex workers as victims because he knew they would not be missed quickly, if at all. The killings of other sex workers in Chicago, New Haven, Connecticut and Ohio, among other places, also remain mysteries.įrom the days of London's Jack The Ripper in the 1880s, serial killers, particularly those preying on sex workers, have often gotten away with it, in part because their victims were easy targets living on the margins of society. Media accounts and statements from local authorities show a long trail of open cases, from nine women whose bodies were found along highways in Massachusetts, to 11 found dead in New Mexico, and eight more found amid the crawfish farms and swamps of southern Louisiana. The FBI would not say how many killings of sex workers in the U.S. Yet the recent breakthrough, and the rekindling of public interest, only highlights a painful truth: Many similar cases - like the one in Atlantic City - remain open. The arrest earlier this month of a man charged with killing three women whose remains were found on a Long Island beach in 2010 has breathed fresh life into another long-dormant case with obvious parallels the Gilgo Beach serial killings involve a total of 11 victims, most of whom were young, female sex workers. But as the years passed, the public's attention and fear faded, and the case of the "Eastbound Strangler" - so named for the direction the victims' heads were facing - remained unsolved.
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