Authorities Arrest Suspect in Deaths of Women in Rural Illinois

[Tsiyu]

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A jail inmate has been linked to the deaths of several women whose bodies were dumped along desolate rural roads in Illinois, authorities said Wednesday.
Larry Bright, 38, is expected to be charged Thursday in one of the murders, with charges to be filed later tying him to as many as seven other deaths, State's Attorney Kevin Lyons said. Six women have been found dead since 2001 in neighboring Peoria and Tazewell counties, and four others are missing and feared dead.

"Of the 10 dead and missing women, at least a majority of those 10 have been killed by Larry Bright," Lyons said during a press conference.

Authorities said they received a tip leading them to Bright. They added that a search of his home and property Wednesday turned up remains of at least one body.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1NWVEG4E.html

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Oh God

Why is it that we seem to have more of these fiends in this country than anyone else in the world?

Or am I wrong about that?

What drives people to commit such sick and evil deeds?

And how can they keep the remains of their victims in their homes?

I never have been able to figure this out.

And I have never been able to understand our fascination with such crimes.

Every other show on TV is some CSI-Special Victims-Without a trace type drama.

I can take them in small doses, but not all night, every night.

How sad and terrifying!

[Tsiyu]

2. Yeah, it's creepy

You just never know about some people.

And our society seems to stress shaming, judging or oppressing the mentally unstable, rather than getting people's problems out in the open.

[Kali]

3. It happens elsewhere

and it has happened throughout history and prehistory.

[aquart]

4. Yes. Remember Jack the Ripper? Not ours.

Every country has these charmers. We just don't read newspapers in those languages.

The American Old West had one who killed landladies in boarding houses.

Of course, it was easier when people were harder to trace. Also, communities didn't exchange much crime info before telephones and pcs. So serial killers who moved around were never known as such.

[sybylla]

7. Oh, yeah. This kind of thing has happened with regularity

throughout history. As a genealogist and student of history, I often come across old documents, books and newpapers that will describe an incident or incidents and name the cause as natural when, from a modern perspective, you know it was at the very least suspicious if not outright murder.

I own a book called Wisconsin Death Trip (the result of a graduate project and a bit of a cult classic in the state) which looked at the way people looked at, spoke of and reported death at the turn of the last century. It contained clippings from newspapers across the state over a decade. I found it quite interesting that the deaths of several unknown men, likely tramps, across the state by hanging all seemed to be ruled a suicide and written off. There were accounts of young women killing their out of wedlock babies, one even named her own father as its father. There were accounts of spousal abuse deaths.

What we think of as modern problems have always been with us. They were either not recognized as such in the past or were intentionally swept under the rug as something too horrid for society to admit. People are people. There has never been a golden age of morals, as the conservatives like to think. The only difference between past and present is the perspective.

[readmoreoften]

5. it's interesting how much of it goes unreported

I used to be a dancer when I was younger, and I know of four girls who were murdered and I knew one personally. If you're a sex worker of any kind, you're just open season for abduction/torture/murder. The local cops and grannies couldn't care less. Some of the cops would even joke about it. When a prostitute was found dead they'd report the incident NH or NHI: No Human Involved.

It's fun bein' a girl!

[tooncesj0nes]

6. Readmoreoften..Id be curious to know...

..what your thoughts are on why any woman would choose to be a 'sex worker'?.....what was different in you where you left it...while others stayed?

[shrike]

9. Probably the money

My husband befriended a woman, African American, who worked as an exotic dancer. Don't know what else she did besides dance, but she owned a brownstone in Chicago, had money in the bank. She was college-educated and she earned more money than she ever could in a "real" job. What the whole experience did to her soul, I don't know.

A friend of mine has a friend who's a call girl in Miami. Again, money drives her. Interestingly enough, she flies to Washington often and services a lot of Congressman and Senators -- unfortunately, I can't find out which ones.

[Straight Shooter]

8. That's one of the most disgusting things I've ever read.

NH or NHI? What kind of sick mind would invent that kind of acronym to describe the death of someone with so little choice that she would choose to exchange the temporary use of her body for a survival wage?

I believe in legal prostitution for several reasons; the danger to the women in the "sex industry" is at the top of the list. I don't like the word "prostitution," though.

I also think men should be allowed to rent their bodies for pleasure, without stigma, to women. People have their reasons for not wanting to be in a long-term or a committed relationship, and it's not my place to judge why they feel that way.

NH or NHI. Jeebers. I'll have to ask the local cops about that one. Sometimes high-stress professionals make jokes to cover up their own fears and insecurities. OTOH, how would they like it if a cop death were referred to by the public as PDI (pig death involved)?