Police Probe Link Between Man Killed After Reportedly Assaulting Escort And Missing Ohio Women
The man's death may provide clues about six women who have died or disappeared in Chillicothe, Ohio.
David Lohr
Senior Crime Reporter, The Huffington Post
Posted: 07/21/2015
Police are investigating a possible connection between a man who was allegedly killed on Saturday by an escort whom he had attempted to beat and the recent deaths and disappearances of several women in southern Ohio.
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"The details that we're able to release right now are that there was a struggle ... that the man had beaten and strangled the woman and gotten her onto the ground, laid the gun down as he was dragging her back through the house, and she was able to pick the gun up and fire over her shoulder blindly, and the bullet did strike the man, killing him," Charleston Police Lt. Steve Cooper told the Charleston Gazette on Saturday.
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Ohio Authorities Looking Into Any Ties Between Missing, Murdered Women And Charleston Justified Homicide
Updated: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 | Leslie A. Rubin
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police are investigating if there could be a connection between a justified homicide in Charleston and a long list of missing and murdered women in Ohio.
On Saturday, a woman shot and killed a man who was attacking her in her home. Police say she set up a meeting with the man through a website called "Backpage" where she had offered services as an escort.
Although police are remaining tight lipped on what they know about the attacker, Eyewitness News has learned that investigators in Charleston and Chillicothe, Ohio have been in contact with each other. Some fear a serial killer has been involved with the deaths and disappearances of six women in that area.
"That interaction turned deadly very quickly. Fortunately for her, she wasn't the victim," explains Lt. Steve Cooper. Cooper believes the woman, who's name has not been released, would have been seriously hurt or murdered had she not made a split second decision to grab her attacker's gun and shoot him while he was strangling her.
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"We're trying to retrace his steps and figure out as much about him as we can and as much about where he may have been in the past as we can," Cooper says.