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    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...w-prostitutes/ I thought this was a very well written article and it really made me think about police efforts to solve these murders, or lack there of. If it has been determined that all of these women used Craigslist to meet clients, how easy would it have been to search their cell phone records and find out what numbers they'd been receiving calls from, and then investigate the people associated with those numbers? I know that the killer could very well have been using a phone that was not in their name, but at least it would have been a start. I was wondering what anybody else's thoughts are.

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    You'd think it would be pretty easy, isn't that exactly the data that the NSA has been gathering?

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    This article was very well done and thankfully non judgmental. I watched the show, "Disappeared" on ID that profiled the disappearance of Shannon Gilbert. It was VERY frustrating to watch. I feel like the police effort was lacking and that more could have been done.

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    I've been following this story for a while now and I'm finally glad to see a pretty unbiased article. Especially this part:

    In the two years I’ve spent learning about the lives of all five women, I have found that they all defied expectations. They were not human-trafficking victims in the classic sense. They stayed close to their families. They all came to New York to take advantage of a growing black market — an underground economy that offered them life-changing money, and with a remarkably low barrier to entry. The real temptation wasn’t drugs or alcohol, but the promise of social mobility.
    Some other articles I've read in the past, particularly of Shannon Gilbert, I've seen her often referenced as a "hooker" or "craigslist hooker", something along those lines. Basically "just another hooker".

    I did remember reading that the serial killer actually called one of the missing girl's sister multiple times, terrorizing her and saying how her sister was a whore and he would get her next, but when the police tried to trace the call, they could only find that it was made from the Times Square area. Aside from that yes...the police were basically snoozing on the job. I remember reading the various accounts from Gilbert's family members, saying how even though they told the police that she was missing, the police couldn't be assed to really do anything.

    The Gilberts say they immediately filed a missing persons report, but with no news, they drove 140 miles from their home in upstate New York to Oak Beach, Long Island, to look for Shannan themselves. By then, she had been missing for eight days. "We went to all the houses around the area to knock on their doors and just say, 'Hey listen, did you see my sister?'" Sherre said. "We gave them flyers. We went everywhere."
    Police Commissioner Dormer disputes that time, but admits there was a delay. Shannan couldn't tell the operator where she was. It took the 911 call from Colletti.

    "Now we know where she is. An officer was dispatched," said Dormer.

    Gus Colletti was waiting at the gate for the officer when he arrived.

    "Did the police seem concerned about the missing -- " Moriarty asked Colletti.

    "Not at all."
    Asked is she thinks the fact that her sister was an escort influenced the investigation, Sarra told Moriarty, "Yes, I do. I believe they judged her by her profession and not as a person. Not as the missing sister, the missing aunt. They're just, 'Oh, a missing prostitute.'"

    I remember reading about one of the other missing girls, her family went to the police to report that she had gone missing. The police basically said to them that there were runaways all the time and maybe she didn't want to be found.

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    So sad. It's a very well written article, though.

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