Contact Admin. West Virginia authorities are trying to circulate information to see if Neal Falls, of Springfield, Oregon, can be linked to any other crimes against women in the U. Police say Falls was fatally shot July 18 as he attacked and choked the escort in Charleston, West Virginia, and she grabbed his handgun off the ground and fired it.
Steve Cooper, Charleston police chief of detectives, said. Cooper said Falls had a list of 10 other women in his pocket. Nine were in West Virginia; one was across the U. Similar to the Charleston woman, whom police are calling Heather, all were escorts active online, he said. They are all still alive, he said.
Heather had a separated shoulder, broken vertebrae, strangulation marks around her throat and other injuries, Cooper said. Police have said Falls rented a room in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson when four prostitutes went missing in the area. In three cases, young women working as prostitutes went missing and were found dismembered on the side of a road. Henderson police spokeswoman Michelle French said they are checking into any possible Falls connection to the disappearance of year-old Lindsay Harris.
She was the subject of a massive search, and her family from central New York helped comb the desert area where her rental car was last seen 30 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip. North Las Vegas police said detectives are searching for year-old Jessica Foster, who was reported missing from the Vegas suburb in A fourth woman was reported missing from Vegas in , and her torso was found wrapped in plastic near the Nevada-California border.
Cooper said West Virginia police have also been communicating with authorities in the small southern Ohio city of Chillicothe, where four women died in suspicious circumstances and two others are missing.
