According to cops, the tryst had been booked on backpages.com between a john named Neal Falls and an escort in Charleston, West Virginia.
By the end of the encounter on July 18, 2015, Falls’ ticket had been punched one-way. Destination: Morgue.
The 45-year-old punter had attacked and choked the escort but the quick-thinking would-be victim turned the tables, grabbed his gun off the ground and squeezed the trigger twice, sending him to oblivion.
“When he strangled me, I grabbed my rake, and when he laid the gun down to get the rake out of my hands, I shot him … I grabbed the gun and shot behind me,” escort Heather Saul later said.
When detectives searched Falls’ car, they discovered axes, knives, handcuffs, a shovel, bleach and other items.
“The fact that he was 45 years old, and carrying tools like he was, and committing a crime that was so organized and so violent, it’s unlikely that this was his first violent crime,” Lt. Steve Cooper, Charleston chief of detectives, told reporters.
Indeed.
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By the end of the encounter on July 18, 2015, Falls’ ticket had been punched one-way. Destination: Morgue.
The 45-year-old punter had attacked and choked the escort but the quick-thinking would-be victim turned the tables, grabbed his gun off the ground and squeezed the trigger twice, sending him to oblivion.
“When he strangled me, I grabbed my rake, and when he laid the gun down to get the rake out of my hands, I shot him … I grabbed the gun and shot behind me,” escort Heather Saul later said.
When detectives searched Falls’ car, they discovered axes, knives, handcuffs, a shovel, bleach and other items.
“The fact that he was 45 years old, and carrying tools like he was, and committing a crime that was so organized and so violent, it’s unlikely that this was his first violent crime,” Lt. Steve Cooper, Charleston chief of detectives, told reporters.
Indeed.

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By the end of the encounter on July 18, 2015, suspected serial killer Neal Falls' ticket had been punched one-way. Destination: Morgue.