Results 1 to 12 of 12

Thread: Please Be Careful Out There!

  1. #1
    God/dess verfolgung's Avatar
    Joined
    Jul 2004
    Location
    New England
    Posts
    2,143
    Thanks
    48
    Thanked 259 Times in 191 Posts

    Exclamation Please Be Careful Out There!

    To those who advertise other services on-line, please be careful...

    http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...hotel_attacks/

    He looks as if he just stepped from the pages of a fashion catalog, with a stylish, dark jacket, tousled hair, and cool nonchalance as he glides down an escalator to a marble landing, casually typing a message into a cellphone.

    But the young man, caught on surveillance tapes Tuesday, isn't another tourist or businessman. He is, police believe, an unlikely killer near an equally unlikely murder scene, the 20th floor of the Marriott Copley in the Back Bay.

    And as authorities launched a hunt for the man - also captured on surveillance cameras last week at the Westin Copley Hotel, where a 29-year-old Las Vegas woman was bound and robbed at gunpoint - the killing this week opened a window on a vast and elusive underworld of prostitutes who advertise online and do business at high-end hotels.

    "What we believe is that there are a series of independent operations that are occurring, and it's very difficult for the hotels to police them because they don't know who it is that's coming in to use their rooms," said Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis. "We've been monitoring it very closely, but it's very difficult to completely eliminate it."

    Tuesday's victim, a slight 26-year-old who one witness initially believed was a child, had advertised massage services on Craigslist, the online classified service. A massage table was found in her room at the Marriott Copley.

    Police believe the woman was struggling with her attacker when he shot her multiple times in the torso. She apparently was fighting the attacker as he tried to bind her hands with a plastic cord, according to law enforcement officials.

    The man was captured on the Marriott's security cameras around 10 p.m., police said. About that time, Jane Greenberg, a New York woman staying with her teenage son three doors down from the crime scene, heard two loud shrieks. Rushing into the hallway, she saw a small woman collapsed on the floor, halfway out the room door.

    "I asked several times, 'Are you OK'" Greenberg told WCVB-TV. 'Are you OK? Are you OK?' And no response whatsoever."
    Greenberg said she heard loud bangs before the shrieking but had not thought they were gunshots. Greenberg called hotel security, which arrived immediately.

    The victim, who was from New York but whose name was not released, was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The victim's family traveled to Boston yesterday to identify her body, police said.

    Police said the crime appears linked to the robbery of the Las Vegas woman at the Westin April 10. That woman, who was bound with a plastic cord and gagged, according to a police report, was also robbed of a debit card, $800 in cash, and $250 in American Express gift cards. She had also advertised massage services on Craigslist, police said.

    "Everything about the crime leads us to believe they are connected," Davis said. "The similarities between the method of operation but also the photos that we've taken from the scenes of both crimes show a very similar suspect."

    Yesterday, a witness to the Westin attack described another harrowing scene. The 47-year old doctor from Tennessee, who asked that his name be withheld, said he was in his room working on his laptop when he heard a frantic banging on his door. He opened it to find a petite blond in a cocktail dress who told him she had just been robbed by a tall, blond muscular man who threatened her with a gun and a knife and left her bound and gagged.

    "Her wrists had marks from zip ties," said the man. She said she had wriggled out of the restraints after the robber fled the room. "She was remarkably calm for what had gone on," he said.

    She called security from his room phone and later told police she had initially met her assailant outside the hotel and he had later come to her room.

    Police said neither woman was sexually assaulted, but investigators declined to say whether there was consensual sexual activity.
    Police released enhanced photographs taken from security tapes at the Marriott and the Westin in the hope that someone would identify the man, who is believed to live in the Boston area. They described him as a "a person of interest."

    Calling yesterday's developments a "critical point" in the investigation, Davis appealed for help in identifying the man in the footage. "We are really looking for the public to help us," Davis said. "We believe that someone would be able to see this photo and call us and tell us who he is."

    Davis, who said it was unclear whether Tuesday's victim was a prostitute, said department officials have been working with security guards at hotels to curtail prostitution, advising them to look for guests who have people coming and going from their rooms frequently or at odd hours.

    Davis said many escorts may not report crimes against them. In February, FBI agents arrested five women, ages 19 to 33, who allegedly showed up at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf after agreeing to provide sex for up to $300 an hour to undercover officers.

    The officers had responded to advertisements posted on Craigslist, according to Boston police reports. At Choices Escorts & Dancers, an area escort agency, a woman said working independently through sites like Craigslist is highly dangerous.

    "Agencies are more secure - these sites are not," she said, declining to provide her name. "The people who prey on these girls, they target independent escorts. They know that if you're on Craigslist, you are unprotected."

    She said the Marriott Copley was a "nice, secure hotel" that will not typically let a woman visit a room after midnight unescorted.
    When told that in this case the man had apparently visited the woman, she said, "That's another thing we don't do."

    "You can't screen guys that are coming to you" agreed a man who answered the phone at an escort service he did not want named. His service, he said, would not allow a client to approach one of its escorts in a hotel room unguarded, no matter how nice the room.

    "We send these guys through a lot of screening before we let them near our girls,"he said. Hotels said they are coordinating with authorities.
    Lucy Slosser, a spokeswoman for the Marriott Copley, called the shooting an "isolated incident" but said the hotel works closely with police to deter prostitution. Michael Jorgensen, general manager at Westin Copley, said the hotel "acts swiftly and diligently to investigate any reports of illicit activity on our premises."
    If you can't win. Make the fellow in front of you break the record.


  2. #2
    God/dess Kylea2's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Denver & San Fran
    Posts
    6,907
    Thanks
    181
    Thanked 2,002 Times in 1,285 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    Poor girl! I know the economy is bad, but there is still something to be said for safety in numbers. Working at your own location where there are a lot of other people around (like a club or in this girl's case a massage parlor) is still safer than working independently.
    Don't you ever sleep?
    Not at night...that's when the stars have rather better things to do. They're coming out, shining, that sort of thing.
    - Blog -
    My PM box fills up quick. If you have a question please with your username.
    Congrats to Pryce on doing some much needed tending in his garden!
    - -


  3. #3
    Featured Member wish's Avatar
    Joined
    Sep 2006
    Location
    Virginia
    Posts
    1,075
    Thanks
    1,068
    Thanked 1,035 Times in 466 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    So glad they caught that bastard! I hope they punish him for sticking guns in peoples face and not try to blame the victims in this.

  4. #4
    God/dess Kylea2's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Denver & San Fran
    Posts
    6,907
    Thanks
    181
    Thanked 2,002 Times in 1,285 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    ^^^ I didn't hear about that. Do you have the link on the story?
    Don't you ever sleep?
    Not at night...that's when the stars have rather better things to do. They're coming out, shining, that sort of thing.
    - Blog -
    My PM box fills up quick. If you have a question please with your username.
    Congrats to Pryce on doing some much needed tending in his garden!
    - -


  5. #5
    Featured Member wish's Avatar
    Joined
    Sep 2006
    Location
    Virginia
    Posts
    1,075
    Thanks
    1,068
    Thanked 1,035 Times in 466 Posts

  6. #6
    Senior Member LittleMissy's Avatar
    Joined
    Dec 2007
    Location
    CA / VA
    Posts
    192
    Thanks
    7
    Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    ^^^ frikken awesome
    "Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they're supposed to run wild until they find someone - just as wild - to run with."







  7. #7
    Member
    Joined
    Feb 2010
    Posts
    52
    Thanks
    2
    Thanked 7 Times in 4 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    This is the craigslist killer.
    He has committed suicide now

  8. #8
    Member StarsInEyes's Avatar
    Joined
    May 2011
    Posts
    65
    Thanks
    19
    Thanked 32 Times in 19 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    I've only been camming since Friday night, and not on LJ or those sites. But I can't believe how many people have talked to me about meeting them! I was like wtf is this..

  9. The Following User Says Thank You to StarsInEyes For This Useful Post:


  10. #9
    Featured Member kittykrane's Avatar
    Joined
    Feb 2011
    Posts
    1,519
    Thanks
    2,182
    Thanked 1,990 Times in 793 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    Quote Originally Posted by StarsInEyes View Post
    I've only been camming since Friday night, and not on LJ or those sites. But I can't believe how many people have talked to me about meeting them! I was like wtf is this..
    That is a big " HELL-TO-THE-NO" for me. I mean, one could just as likely be in a car accident or have a boyfriend who treats you worse than your clients, but it's not worth the risk for me even if I was single. But the guys still ask, beg to know my exact location (which I don't tell them) etc....It's really none of their business.

    Here's the guy to be worried about now! I believe his targets are escorts and prostitutes, most of them, if not all.

    Long Island Serial KillerPolice discovered the bodies while searching for 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert, who went missing in May in the area, and are investigating whether any of the newly-discovered remains are hers.

    "The medical examiner is going to be looking at the possibility that Shannan Gilbert is one of the remains," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said. "We do have forensic and information available to the ME that would either prove it's her or eliminate her."

    The search for Gilbert is expected to resume Tuesday. Gilbert, like the other women whose remains have been identified, reportedly advertised as a prostitute on Craigslist.

    Authorities have identified the four bodies found in December as Amber Lynn Costello, 27, originally of Wilmington, N.C.; Megan Waterman, 22, of Scarborough, Maine; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 28, of Norwich, Conn.; and Melissa Barthelemy, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y.

    Police suspect a serial killer but so far have no suspects.

  11. #10
    Banned
    Joined
    Mar 2011
    Posts
    2,197
    Thanks
    1,064
    Thanked 2,338 Times in 1,089 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    Just fyi.. this article is a year old. Why was it bumped. I'm confused. CL killer died.

  12. #11
    Veteran Member Billabong's Avatar
    Joined
    Mar 2010
    Posts
    338
    Thanks
    265
    Thanked 615 Times in 181 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    I was about to be like "Umm wtf? Isn't that the CL killer?" and sure enough the article/thread was from 2009 lol.

  13. #12
    Featured Member kittykrane's Avatar
    Joined
    Feb 2011
    Posts
    1,519
    Thanks
    2,182
    Thanked 1,990 Times in 793 Posts

    Default Re: Please Be Careful Out There!

    Quote Originally Posted by Billabong View Post
    I was about to be like "Umm wtf? Isn't that the CL killer?" and sure enough the article/thread was from 2009 lol.
    Ha! I didn't even notice that!

Similar Threads

  1. Be Careful!
    By PookaShell in forum The Lounge
    Replies: 4
    Last Post: 04-13-2007, 12:17 AM
  2. Why you have to be careful...
    By Sirona in forum Body Business
    Replies: 2
    Last Post: 08-19-2006, 06:48 PM
  3. Be careful
    By Vyanka in forum The Lounge
    Replies: 7
    Last Post: 10-19-2005, 03:13 PM
  4. Be Careful
    By lethalsoul in forum The Lounge
    Replies: 2
    Last Post: 04-04-2005, 01:30 AM
  5. Be careful out there
    By jennymodel in forum General Board
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 04-18-2004, 10:59 PM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •