According to Webster's famous dictionary, the word 'Prostitution' is defined as: "The business or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment."
Sometimes it's also referred to as 'the world's oldest profession.'
These days, prostitution is defined as a 100-billion-dollar-per-year industry. The actual payment, or pay-scale for services rendered however, is left undefined—and there's a good reason for that.
Hookers who are desperate for cash and choose to go out walking the streets alone after midnight have historically become the preferred "prey of choice" for serial-killing-predators such as the notorious Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway: "The Green River Killer."
As (shown below) clearly depicted, one unsuspecting streetwalker did not get her desired cash-payment after a sexual rendezvous with an unknown client.
Rather than receiving her payment in monetary form—instead the pay-back came to her in the form of a .38-caliber slug.
Caveat emptor is the Latin form of "Let the buyer beware."
Little 6-year-old Jon Benét Patricia Ramsey, born on August 6, 1990, and whose death is listed as December 25, 1996, was found on Christmas day by her father in a tiny room in the basement of their elegant Bolder, Colorado, Mansion,..murdered.
The room, which Jon Benet and her older-brother Burke had nicknamed the 'train room' was filled with evidence of strangulation and sexual assault, including a crude looking 'Garrot' made with nylon rope and a paintbrush handle and tied with an intricate knot—which was still entwined around the child's tender young neck.
According to the lead detective on the case, Steve Thomas, whose book—my copy is pictured above—the Garrott and vaginal trauma were staged afterthoughts left by the killer to mislead the investigators.
The real cause of death, Thomas contends, was a severely fractured skull—a wound which was made, according to Thomas, by Jon Benet's 39-year-old mother, Patsy Ramsey.
Although she was never charged, and according to this 'PDF link' was finally cleared by DNA in July, 2008, Thomas, in his crime-scene book, alleges an entirely different scenario.
Thomas states in his book, paraphrasing here, that Jon Benet, at six years of age, was still sometimes wearing diapers due to an ongoing bed-wetting problem—one which made the mother, Patsy Ramsey, furious and violent.
On the night/morning of Jon Benet's death, Thomas contends the little girl had once-again awakened after wetting the bed, alerting her tired and nearly drunk mother—who was also distraught over an approaching 40th birthday.
Then, the detective says, an explosive encounter happened between mother and daughter—in the area of the 'children's' bathroom—one that escalated to the point where Jon Benet's head was 'slammed hard into a solid surface,' such as the edge of the bathtub or sink-counter, causing the child to become unconsciousness and eventually dying due to brain hemorrhage.
A rambling ransom note was left behind also, which Detective Thomas contends was also staged and written by Mrs Ramsey in an attempt to avoid suspicion.
Thomas says Mr. Ramsey was never involved in his theory, but did willingly participate.
If Thomas is right, then Mrs Ramsey may have taken this secret to the grave with her, as she is now herself deceased, succumbing to cancer in 2006, at the age of 49.
