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1 " Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness. "
― Ann Rule , Green River, Running Red
2 " felt that he just wanted somebody to keep a house clean for him and do the shopping and the cooking. He was always in the garage with his cars, working on them, doing something. All he wanted was food and sex, and that was it. Any time we did talk, it would end up in arguments. "
3 " Although her parents didn’t know it, Debra had gotten a prescription for birth control pills at Planned Parenthood when she was only ten. "
4 " It made natural headlines. Prostitutes being murdered suggested a titillating story. Moreover, citizens, living in nice safe houses, whose wives and daughters were never alone on the streets could be reassured. "
5 " The few detectives working the cases complained of the same things the “Ted” Task Force had hated: sitting in a stuffy, cramped office; sorting through mountains of paper, tips, and notes; trying to find the common denominators that might lead them to a suspect they could interrogate. "
6 " She shook her head, “No, I could tell if they were safe after talking to them for five minutes or so. I was only beaten up twice…” Only twice. "
7 " Maybe he had some crazy sense that his victims shouldn’t be alone, and so he’d left them with “friends. "
8 " Offering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alienation, and loneliness. "
9 " Disasters often begin silently with an almost imperceptible shift in the way things are expected to be. "
10 " The bodies were both a burden to get rid of and treasures he wanted to keep. "
11 " Cause that was more personal and more rewarding than to shoot her. "
12 " Their female family members weren’t offering sex for money, and they had no tattoos or drug habits, so they could conclude that a roving killer was no danger to them. "