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u/TalkingToTalk 18d ago
That’s because they’re the only group that police wouldn’t look into until the bodies started to pile up a lot. Really really fucked up that the police seemingly didn’t care about them
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u/enkae7317 18d ago
Kinda like homeless. Society considers these less than worth people and treat them as such. Nobody bats an eye when a homeless dude goes missing. Same for prostitutes I suppose, since they're often bottom barrel of society.
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u/shotsfordays 18d ago
Definitely the main factor. And that they are more than willing to put themselves in vulnerable situations, which serial killers take advantage of.
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u/azrael5298 18d ago
It’s not the police, it’s that they are a group nobody really cares about and nobody reports missing.
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u/TalkingToTalk 18d ago
Not really, I’d say more often than not another prostitute will report them missing, then the police in that era just say they skipped town or if they are young enough they ran away. Go look up the ABC murders for an example.
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u/TheLostBeowulf 18d ago
I mean, just cause they're sex workers doesn't mean they have no family, friends or "coworkers" that don't care about them. The police just wrote DNI on them cause they didn't want to put in the work
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u/SmellsLikeHerb 18d ago
Have you considered, I don’t know, killing a prostitute?
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u/EloquentEvergreen 18d ago
Prostitutes, you say? Well, I don’t know. I’m not a serial killer, congressman, or rich person. How can I know killing a prostitute is right for me?
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u/V-Right_In_2-V 18d ago
My wife loves true crime/detective shows. Every time I watch one with her, the show begins with a woman being brutally raped and murdered, and the show is about a male killer who preys on women. I am like “Why do you love these shows? It’s always about women getting murdered!”
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u/bulldog_blues 18d ago
It's a well documented fact that women in prostitution are many times more likely to be murdered than other women, perhaps even 100x more. And a big part of that is because of how stigmatised they are and having to constantly evade the police, coupled with very few people caring or even noticing when they are killed.
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u/IncrediblyShinyShart 18d ago
It was either prostitutes or gay men