portrays the shattered lives of girls next door who became crack, coke, opioid, and heroin addicts, and who in their hustle for drugs became streetwalkers and internet escorts. In jailhouse journals and interviews, they confess with candor and courage to their sex work and drug crimes. Doomed by their addictions, most girls never recover, while others die young from AIDS, OD, or murder. Here a spotlight is shined upon 22 lives. One chapter, one life. And sometimes one death.
Living and dying on the fringes of society, four fatally overdosed, including Olivia, a 17-year-old internet escort whose death exposed a prostitution ring. Renee, Michelle, and Hope were murdered by johns. Liz was an accessory to two murders. Darlene, after her prison break, was hunted in two states. Heather robbed six banks in three states in six consecutive days. All their photos and interviews are included in these dramatic true crime stories about some guys' lust for sex and these girls' thirst for drugs.
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CONTENTS
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Part One - The UNDERWORLD
01 - MARIE - A Shadowy Figure Afoot Flashes "The Look"
02 - LINDA - Mr Crack Introduces Ms Jane to Mr John
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Part Two - The INTERNET ESCORTS
03 - NORWICH and the Bad Bets on the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos
04 - LADY LUCK - The Escorts' Guide to the Casinos
05 - THE THREE GRACES - Outcasts on Outcalls
06 - DEVON - Casino Escort of Last Resort
07 - OLIVIA - The Grisly Death of the Girl from Griswold
08 - KATRINA - Life as Hurricane
09 - HOPE - Topless Dancer in a Bottomless Pit
10 - LYNNE - The Crackhead Addicted to Prostitution
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Part Three - The STREETWALKERS
11 - NEW LONDON - A Whale of a Tale and a Tail of a Whale
12 - COPS & RUBBERS - The Streetwalkers' Guide to the City
13 - HEATHER - The Seriously Serial Bank Bandit
14 - RENEE - A Connecticut Lawyer in Judge Arthur's Court
15 - TRISH - Off to See the Wizard of Poz
16 - JESSICA - The Prodigal Mom
17 - DARLENE - Escape to Never-Never Land
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Part Four - The HEROIN HEROINES
18 - WILD and ANTIC WILLIMANTIC - The Riddle of the Syringe
19 - JOE the JOHN - And Now a Word from Our Sponsors
20 - LIZ - Woman Who Runs with the Werewolves
21 - JENNIFER - Beauty and the Beasts
22 - BONNIE - She Takes the High Road and He Takes the Low Road
23 - AMBROSIA - Walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
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Part Five - ANOTHER WORLD
24 - ROBIN - The Prosthetic Prostitute
25 - SEX for HIGHER - A Eulogy
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APPENDICES
Documentation
Further Reading
List of 41 Photographs
Glossary of Street Slang