Something up with Leo on Lisbon tonight
I was on my way home, not looking for anything.
I usually take I-94 west, but I didn't want to deal with any Brewer game traffic. I was going north on 27th toward Lisbon when I saw a motorcycle cop on the first street just south of Lisbon. Then I saw another on the north side of Lisbon at 28th.
After I crossed 35th, I saw a motorcycle cop following a car which he pulled over on Lisbon by the grocery store across from the park.
It was scary seeing all the motorcycle Leos. I think it reminded me of that Dirty Harry movie where the motorcycle cops were abusing their power. Magnum Force, was the title if I remember right.
Craigslist ad - your choice - NY girls
Me: Yes I'd like to book an appointment
Her: (unitelligible) -
Me: Yes - I emailed you two weeks ago and said that I would be in town today in the late afternoon - do you have anyone available that I could visit
Her (mumbling something like ) how did you get this number?
Me: Craigslist
Her: (mumbling something) nobody is up yet can you call back later
Me: You want me to call back later?
Her: (mumbling - can't understand)
Me: you want me to call back at what time?
Her: (mumbling again ---- )
Me: I'm sorry. I can't understand you. I'd like to visit at around 4 today.
Her: (mumbling - slurring speech)
Me: I'm sorry -----
Her: Click
I tried six times to call. I just needed directions. Left messages. You get a few second of rap music and then a beep. I guess I'm supposed to leave a message.
Too bad, had lots of money for the right one. Failed. Don't waste your time
Another CL disaapointment
First, guys cancelled with Sexy Shay who was supposed to come to town, so she cancelled with me.
Frustrated, I called Sienna from CL. Big waste! First, its not her. She is fatter, has a tatoo on her left cheek, and is a b***h. Total rip-off. Here's her ad.
Keep learning to stay away from CL girls.
[*T.oUcH iT*]*[*T.eAsE iT*]*[*K.iSs iT*]*[*p.LeAsE iT*] - w4m - 24 (Milwaukee)
[url]http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/ers/1160248967.html[/url]
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keep your eyes and ears open
Fellow Milwaukee SW hobbyists. Keep your eyes and ears open regarding any possible rumors about this jag off azzhole who murdered 7 ebony SWs. I'm all for saying the hell to LE, but in a situation like this it's imperative that we let LE know what's going on IF we happen to have any relevant info regarding this scumbucket.
My philosophy is simple: LE can go to hell and I won't tell them a goddamn thing when it comes to victimless crimes (hobbying, possession of pot, etc.) HOWEVER, if it comes to physical violence I'll sing like a canary to LE.
Being SW hobbyists we're in an ideal situation to possibly have knowledge about this f'ckface and we should let LE know it.
Stay safe.
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Some news on the killer and on the girls he could prey on
Without an ounce of overstatement, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn referred to prostitutes as an "extraordinarily vulnerable population."
That's true every time these women turn a trick, but much more so in our city right now.
Flynn and District Attorney John Chisholm announced this week that DNA evidence points to a serial killer preying on streetwalkers.
We know genetically who he is by unique microscopic markers in the physical evidence obtained at the murder scenes. The challenge now is to match this strand of black ovals to a real person who, it would appear, walks among us.
If police are correct, he claimed his first two victims just a day apart in October 1986. Nine years would pass before three more women now connected by DNA to this killer would be found dead in 1995. There was another in 1997, and then not until 2007, when there was one more.
The list could grow. Evidence found on two dozen more slain prostitutes is being re-examined using technologically improved DNA screening.
There were lots of articles in this newspaper in the mid- to late 1990s about similarities between murders of prostitutes on the north side. People speculated about a serial killer - words we hadn't heard much here since Jeffrey Dahmer's lethal rampage came to light a few years earlier - but the talk eventually died down.
Now there's physical evidence. The DNA doesn't lie, and it's telling us the same guy apparently hired these women, went with them to abandoned houses or other secluded places, and strangled them. (Police maintain he had sex with one of the seven women but did not kill her.)
Yet he has managed to avoid any arrests serious enough to cause a sample of his DNA to be taken for police databases. He's clever, careful or maybe just lucky.
His terrifying presence may provide added incentive for women to escape from the world's oldest profession and seek out a program such as the Sisters Project run by Milwaukee's Benedict Center.
The center's executive director, Kit Murphy McNally, said many women working as prostitutes have experienced childhood sexual abuse. They get into a downward spiral of depression, drug addiction, toxic relationships with controlling men, joblessness, homelessness and difficulty raising their own children.
"It's one of the most dangerous things they could be doing. These are desperate women," McNally said.
Contrary to what some may think, the money is lousy, she said. And the price goes down the more desperate the woman is for a fix. Sexually transmitted diseases go with the job. So does getting beat up. And then there's arrest and jail and fines to be paid, usually by repeating the cycle of sex for money.
McNally has seen women break free and regain their dignity. Some return to the same streets, but this time to help other women get out of prostitution.
The Sisters Project has suffered on and off from a lack of funding, but Congresswoman Gwen Moore recently secured about $100,000 in federal dollars to keep it going, McNally said.
That's fortunate, because numbers provided by the police chief point to the urgency of the situation. From 1986 to 2007, 42 prostitutes were murdered in Milwaukee. The rate of catching the killers is just 31%, compared with 78% for all homicides here.
Police and prosecutors, who are teamed up with state and federal agents on a special task force, need all the help they can get right now to nail this guy. The tip line is (414) 935-1212.
Until then, every soul-crushing time that a prostitute hooks up with a customer in this city, she needs to worry, "Is this him?"
LaTaryn Williams trusts her instincts when it comes to the men who proposition her for sex on Milwaukee's north side.
"You have your intuition," Williams said. "If I'm not feeling it, I won't get in" the car.
The 30-year-old has been selling sex for money and drugs for several years.
Experience has also taught her that gut feelings won't necessarily save her from the serial killer authorities believe may have killed at least six street-level prostitutes since 1988.
It didn't save her cousin, Joyce Mims. Mims is one of the Milwaukee women suspected of being slain by the killer. Her strangled body was found in a vacant house in 1997.
"I'm scared, but you know you just keep going," Williams said. "You gotta keep going."
At 18, Williams was sober and innocent when Mims was murdered.
"Back then you couldn't tell me I'd be out here right now," she said. "I was devastated (about Mims' death). She was my favorite cousin."
Mims had four boys and loved to spoil Williams, the only girl in the family, taking her shopping and treating her like a daughter.
Williams knew Mims was prostituting herself. Everybody knew. And everybody worried.
They blamed the drugs, something Williams didn't fully understand at the time.
Today she does.
Drugs are why she continues to risk her life almost daily. They are more powerful than any fear of a serial killer.
The money Williams earns on the street - $500 on a good day, she said - goes directly to her drug habit.
"It's the addiction," she says, standing on curb at N. 33rd and W. Vine streets.
Williams, a mother of four, says she carries pepper spray to protect herself and is especially leery of quiet men.
"Anybody can be violent. You never know. It could be someone I know," she says, maybe a regular customer.
But for now, as long as the drugs call her name, Williams will sell her body to get her fix.
"I don't know what it's going to take to stop me," she says with a sigh. "I just hope and pray to God that I don't run into him."
Getting out
Teresa Siner doesn't like to think of herself as a former prostitute. For her, too, it was the drugs that drove her to do certain things. Things she wasn't proud of.
She'd see the money flash through a man's fingers and images of being high gripped her.
So strong were those highs that nothing would get in her way. Not even a serial killer.
Siner, 44, who says she stopped using drugs and selling sex several years ago, remembers when a friend, a prostitute, disappeared in 2000. She turned up dead, her body covered in cigarette burns. Police never found the killer.
"I was pissed," she said. "I thought they (police) just didn't care."
Siner now wonders if they will eventually link the serial killer to her friend's death.
"When you get high, you feel fearless," Siner said. "I thought as long as I was with people I knew, I'd be OK. I wasn't as safe as I thought I was."
Siner guesses the killer lures women with drugs and preys on their vulnerability.
"A lot of them (prostitutes) don't have family and direction and don't feel like they have help. They just want to know, where can I go to get a good night's sleep and something to eat? These men know that and just take advantage."
And no matter how hard a prostitute might try to protect herself, the only sure way is to stop prostituting, she said.
"I would tell all of them to begin by praying," she said. "You can't do it by yourself."
A former Milwaukee prostitute spoke out about life on the street. She worked near North Avenue for years; the same area the North Side Strangler targeted.
The former prostitute "Jenny" says the prostitutes try to look out for each other, but that there is little they can do to help once a woman gets into a car with an unknown man.
"Was there ever talk that maybe there was a serial killer out there?" Today's TMJ4 Reporter Heather Shannon asked.
"Well, you know, things happen, and when something happens to you, you usually pass the word, you know, to look out for this," Jenny replied.
Jenny was never warned of a serial killer, or of the unsolved murders.
"Are you surprised these have gone unsolved as long as they have?" Heather Shannon asked.
"I just think that really, they don't care. It's people on the street, addicted to drugs," Jenny replied.
She said the fear of being killed is just part of the job.
"When you're out there, it happens. Every single day it happens," she said.
Despite the dangers of the job, Jenny believes most prostitutes won't quit.
"Everybody I knew was on crack cocaine," Jenny said. "They'll do whatever it takes to get another hit."
She hopes news of a serial killer will be enough to keep at least some women off the streets.
"It's your choice if you want to stay in that lifestyle or end up in jail or dead," she said.
Jenny got help through Franciscan Peacemakers. They work with prostitutes to try and get them off the streets and off of drugs.
