VoluntaryAmerican
11-01-2012, 12:31 PM
Who gives these women justice? The police? To busy writing tickets.
There are 23 miles and five parkways between the door of the Holiday Inn Express in Hauppauge—the door Megan Waterman walked through for the last time before she disappeared from the view of surveillance cameras on June 6, 2010—to the orange arrows spray painted on Ocean Parkway where her body was found on a snowy, windy December evening, when the pitch black and silence of the beach was broken by flashing police lights and the rattling motors of spotlight generators and a portable crime lab.
Waterman would have turned 23 on January 18, the same day Suffolk County police confirmed she was one of the four dead prostitutes found unburied among the brush of Gilgo Beach. Waterman’s body remained here, just yards away from passing cars, for seven months. Another woman was here more than three years. Another was never officially reported missing at all.
“Normally, if it’s a prostitute or some girl that’s not family-oriented or doesn’t come home on a regular basis, nobody’s going to report her missing,” Detective Lt. William Brosnan of the Nassau County Homicide Squad told the Press in July. Brosnan is the lead detective on another murder case involving a woman some believe to be a prostitute, a woman known only as Peaches—because of a peach tattoo she had on her left breast—or by the medical examiner’s office as U-037859772. Her handless, headless, legless torso was found wrapped in a garbage bag and stuffed in a Rubbermaid container in Hempstead Lake State Park during the summer of 1997. She has yet to be identified. It’s been 13 years and no one has come forward.
Jessica Taylor, 20, a prostitute originally from upstate New York, was found nude, headless and handless on a deserted access road in the Manorville area of the Pine Barrens in 2003. Her murder remains unsolved. It’s been eight years and no one has come forward.
The murder of Gail Belfield, 30, a prostitute from Wyandanch found in 1995 naked from the waist up with a bullet to her head, also remains unsolved. It’s been 16 years and no one has come forward.
“[Prostitutes are] easy victims,” says Tokyo Vice author Jake Adelstein, a journalist who has extensively covered human trafficking, and the public relations director for the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project Japan, which combats the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. “They will follow strangers to isolated places. People do not quickly report them missing. Cops disdain them.”
Rest of article:
http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/01/27/without-a-serial-killer-dead-prostitutes-just-dont-matter/
There are 23 miles and five parkways between the door of the Holiday Inn Express in Hauppauge—the door Megan Waterman walked through for the last time before she disappeared from the view of surveillance cameras on June 6, 2010—to the orange arrows spray painted on Ocean Parkway where her body was found on a snowy, windy December evening, when the pitch black and silence of the beach was broken by flashing police lights and the rattling motors of spotlight generators and a portable crime lab.
Waterman would have turned 23 on January 18, the same day Suffolk County police confirmed she was one of the four dead prostitutes found unburied among the brush of Gilgo Beach. Waterman’s body remained here, just yards away from passing cars, for seven months. Another woman was here more than three years. Another was never officially reported missing at all.
“Normally, if it’s a prostitute or some girl that’s not family-oriented or doesn’t come home on a regular basis, nobody’s going to report her missing,” Detective Lt. William Brosnan of the Nassau County Homicide Squad told the Press in July. Brosnan is the lead detective on another murder case involving a woman some believe to be a prostitute, a woman known only as Peaches—because of a peach tattoo she had on her left breast—or by the medical examiner’s office as U-037859772. Her handless, headless, legless torso was found wrapped in a garbage bag and stuffed in a Rubbermaid container in Hempstead Lake State Park during the summer of 1997. She has yet to be identified. It’s been 13 years and no one has come forward.
Jessica Taylor, 20, a prostitute originally from upstate New York, was found nude, headless and handless on a deserted access road in the Manorville area of the Pine Barrens in 2003. Her murder remains unsolved. It’s been eight years and no one has come forward.
The murder of Gail Belfield, 30, a prostitute from Wyandanch found in 1995 naked from the waist up with a bullet to her head, also remains unsolved. It’s been 16 years and no one has come forward.
“[Prostitutes are] easy victims,” says Tokyo Vice author Jake Adelstein, a journalist who has extensively covered human trafficking, and the public relations director for the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project Japan, which combats the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. “They will follow strangers to isolated places. People do not quickly report them missing. Cops disdain them.”
Rest of article:
http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/01/27/without-a-serial-killer-dead-prostitutes-just-dont-matter/