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Violence Against Sex Workers
"I picked prostitutes as my victims because I
hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex...I
also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to
pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported
missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked
prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I
wanted without getting caught." --Gary Leon Ridgeway
Serial killers target sex workers because they are presumed to
be people about whom nobody cares. Indeed, up until recently,
several police departments were given to a tradition of stamping
"NHI" on case folders of the bodies of dead prostitutes. NHI
stood for "No Human Involed".
SCAPA and SWOP LV, and all the other sex worker rights groups we
link to, believe that the criminal status of prostitution
endangers sex workers and renders them perfect targets for such
violence. Who can they go to if the police are only interested
in arresting them? And why should they be arrested in the first
place for doing something which, if they were doing it without
charging, would be perfectly legal?
The Truth About the Green River Killer
Victims of
Serial Killers website Serial killers who
targeted prostitutes:
Robert William Pickton (Killed perhaps 125 or more)
Victims of Robert William Pickton
Gary Leon Ridgeway (Killed more than 48)
Victims of Gary Leon Ridgeway
Robert Lee Yates
Lorenzo Gilyard (Killed 13)
Arthur Shawcross
John Eric Armstrong "Jack
the Stripper"
Dayton Leroy Rogers
Joel Rifkin
Yoo Young-cheol
William "Bill" Suff (Killed 19) "North
Street Strangler"
Bobby Joe Long
Charles Albright
Roy Conde (Killed 6)
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