A curious word choice…

Someone needs to go whoops upside the head of whoever is writing website headlines over at CNN.com. Something about Hooker deaths near Atlantic City a mystery a year later pisses me off.

Maybe it’s that the writer uses the word prostitute in the article. Perhaps it’s that the editor thought the fact that one of the victims was a former housewife was a story highlight. But I’m pretty sure it’s the ‘they had it coming’ aftertaste, which sickly mirrors the crimes, that got me.

The good girl gone bad...the ho...the hooker...the whore who got what she deserved?

No.

The victims where Kim Raffo, Barbara Breidor, Molly Jean Dilts and Tracy Ann Roberts.

May they rest in peace.

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