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Horrible, horrible acts of inhumanity indeed. And true that the prey were typically homeless, down and out women. But...industrial complex? Since when do airports and a meat processing have anything to do with one another? Might as well say they were linked in that they were all located near strip malls.
Posted by Damn Industry! on November 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM
baconpussy 2
This arch, hanging symbolism that ends so many of Charles's posts is pedantic and elitist. OK, Charles...enlighten us. Industrial complexes. Why should we give a fuck? What does this shared detail offer to our greater understanding of the issue?

Or are you just kissing to be clever at the expense of the dead? Wouldn't be the firstime on that count, would it, Charles?

If you have a point to make, make it. You seem intelligent...stop being ridiculous.
Posted by baconpussy on November 5, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Max Solomon 3
tenuous. ridgeway worked at a truck factory. the bodies were abandoned in the industrial peripheries, not crawlspaces or backyards.
Posted by Max Solomon on November 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM
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Maybe you should start ignoring your instincts, Charles, unless they are also telling you to post a nice boobie photo to liven up our day. How about, "the victims were all women, and so is this scrumptious specimen. [inserted photo of someone with boobies]"
Posted by David from Chicago on November 5, 2009 at 9:11 AM
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Well said, Charles.
Posted by retinariddims on November 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM
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Overall, mixing crime stories with Marxist and post-modern claptrap has earned Charles much noteriaty and many paychecks. Charles' writing must not be dissociated with the social and economic incentives that determine it.
Posted by David Wright on November 5, 2009 at 9:22 AM
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Comparing Ray's - a small corner sausage shop to Sea-Tac is a bit of a stretch.

Connecting to the subprime mortgage crisis is less of a stretch. Police have a ton of work to do searching vacant houses in the neighborhood for further victims. Also, more vacant houses = less neighbors to notice what's going on.
Posted by pain on November 5, 2009 at 9:23 AM
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there might be a connection charles, as you know cleveland, specially inner city cleveland was decimated during subprime mortgage crisis, to the extent that thousands of row houses were (are) abandoned all over cleveland, yes cleveland has always been a wee shit hole, but this made it worse and left plenty of abandoned houses and abandoned place where a serial killer can commit atrocious crimes and people assume smells are just part of a decaying city or a decaying sausage factory. For all practical purposes cleveland is a dead city where a lot of the abandoned houses are owned by europeans who snatched them up for 8 grand. So there is a colonialist connection there too. that’s the best i can do I reckon.
Posted by SeMe on November 5, 2009 at 9:26 AM
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or like lester in the Wire said when he found all the dead bodies that marlo left in b-more's abandoned houses, "les is in there, this is a tomb"

Posted by SeMe on November 5, 2009 at 9:27 AM
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just as long as they don't connect the sausages in said sausage factory to the serial killer...

Now I don't only feel for the victims and the families but i can't help but feel for Ray's, too. Horrible PR.
Posted by mitten on November 5, 2009 at 9:32 AM
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CUZ SEURL KILLZ ARE LIKE SOUTH PARK; UNSAFE
Posted by LaRiiiiM0RrrHAwtiiii696969 on November 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM
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i would imagine ray's sausages are going to be at a considerable discount during next year's cleveland indians games.
Posted by SeMe on November 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM
stinkbug 13
"the subprime mortgage crisis, which has its epicenter in Cleveland"

If people haven't read it, this NYT article about the Cleveland housing situation is worth a read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/magazi…

An excerpt:

"But while there he noticed with alarm what looked like a prone body in the yard next door. As he moved closer, he realized he was looking at an elderly woman who had just one leg, lying on the ground. She was leaning on one arm and, with the other, was whacking at weeds with a hatchet and stuffing the clippings into a cardboard box for garbage pickup. “Talk about fortitude,” he told me. In a place like Cleveland, hope comes in small morsels."
Posted by stinkbug on November 5, 2009 at 9:55 AM
ams_ 14
Commercial Drive? wtf? Pickton had his farm in coquitlam, not right in the center of the city.
Posted by ams_ on November 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM
ams_ 15
my bad, the rendering plant was on commercial.
Posted by ams_ on November 5, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Keekee 16
Exactly how does one confuse the smell of sausage making with the smell of decaying human flesh?? Is it that similiar of a smell?
Posted by Keekee on November 5, 2009 at 10:36 AM
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Also, more vacant houses = less neighbors to notice what's going on.


And possibly squatters in those abandoned houses. I wonder if that's where/how Sowell found some of his victims.
Posted by keshmeshi on November 5, 2009 at 11:11 AM
zoe 18
#14 - Pickton murdered the women at a pig farm and slaughterhouse in Coquitlam, outside Vancouver.
Posted by zoe http://zoeblunt.wordpress.com on November 5, 2009 at 1:35 PM

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