"Clearly his intentions were dark.”
7.27.2015
The only thing that can stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun. Or failing that, a woman who takes the bad man's gun from him and shoots him with it.
A woman in Charleston, W.Va., shot and killed an alleged attacker in her home last week, the Washington Post reports.
Neal Falls showed up at the woman’s home on July 18 after answering an escort ad she had placed. He showed up ready to do some serious damage, 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 his pocket was a "kill list" of names of potential future victims, all of whom are sex workers.
It turns out that Falls, 45, may be responsible for a string of slayings targeting sex workers in Ohio and Nevada. Lt. Steve Cooper of the Charleston Police Department told the Huffington Post on Wednesday,
We have been able to locate most of them and they were all on a Web site advertising for escort services. The stuff that we found is so alarming that we want law enforcement across the country to be aware of it.
From the moment Falls showed up at the home of his latest alleged victim, a sex worker, he turned violent. “I knew he was there to kill me,” she said. “I could tell that he had already done something because he said that he was going to prison for a long time. And that’s when I knew he was gonna kill me.”
She said that 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.
Police said Falls, who had minor traffic offenses in several states but no criminal history, worked as a security guard in Oregon.
Lt. Coopers said Falls’s DNA might link him to other crimes:
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. If his DNA has been located in any other crimes and his profile was entered into CODIS, there will be a match.
The Washington Post reports that
At least six women have disappeared from the 21,000 person town of Chillicothe, Ohio — about two hours from Charleston — in a little over a year. Four of their bodies have been found, almost all of them dumped in nearby streams and creeks. The victims have similar stories involving sex work and drug addiction, according to police, and some of the women even knew one another from drug rehab.
“I don’t want to come out and say ‘yes, we have a serial killer,’" Staff Lt. Mike Preston of the Ross County Sheriff’s Department told WaPo, "but it’s a small community that we live in … and the number of females who have come up missing, and then the bodies that we’ve found, that’s quite a bit for our community.”
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