Neal Falls, 45, a former security who died after being shot with his own gun by a woman, is suspected of being a serial killer. He was shot dead by a woman he beaten and choked in Charleston, West Virginia. Police ruled his death to be a justified homicide.
The Charleston police found a machete, a shovel, axes, knives, a bulletproof vest, handcuffs, a large bottle of bleach, and a list of escort names in Falls car making him a suspected serial killer.
Falls died on July 18 in the apartment of the escort he met through a website used in looking for prostitutes, Backpage.com. The escort said that the man pointed a gun to her stomach as she opened the door and she heard the man say, "Live or die." The police said that the girl grabbed his pistol and shot him dead as he tried to strangle her.
The woman who killed Falls used an alias and wished to keep her identity unknown. After the shooting, her neighbor called 911 and reported the incident. The woman was after brought to the hospital to be taken care of.
Falls never had any criminal record only minor traffic violations, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. The police suspect that Falls had attacked other women and his attack on the escort is not a one -time event.
Lieutenant Steve Cooper of Charleston Police was quoted by the Huffington Post as saying that based on the nature of the attack and the items found on suspect's possession. He said it is hard to imagine that it is only going to be a one-time event for him.
Falls is from Springfield, Oregon and he was renting a room in Henderson, Nevada from 2000 until 2008. According to the report, four prostitutes went missing during that period. The police are working on finding a link between Falls and the killings.