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As is true even today, women who work as prostitutes are much more likely to be the victim of a violent crime. With the poverty conditions in London's Whitechapel district many women were forced into prostitution in order to survive. Without a man (father or husband) to take care of them their choices were greatly reduced. Jack the Ripper took full advantage of the circumstances which made these poor women walk the streets at all hours of the night. Unfortunately, little has changed. Gary Leon Ridgeway, aka Green River Killer, confessed to over 60 murders in Washington state. With few exceptions, he targeted prostitutes that worked the Sea-Tac strip near the Sea-Tac airport in Seattle.

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