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The Victims in Detail: Sex Work Stigma and Opal Mills' Story
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Alaina takes time to tell each victim's story with care. Marcia Chapman was a mother of three young children living on the SeaTac Strip who left her apartment telling her children she'd be back soon. Cynthia Hines, 17, had a self-described 'protector' who was really a pimp and who watched her get into a black Jeep without writing down the plate. Then came Opal Mills — a 16-year-old who spent her time in church and with her family, a curious outlier with no sex work history whatsoever. The press, however, made no such distinction, and a school official told a reporter that 'Opal's pimp picked her up from school the day she went missing.' That pimp? Her brother, who was simply making sure she got home safely. The episode also reveals the grotesque detail from Marcia Chapman's autopsy: the killer had placed small stones inside her so tightly they required surgical removal.
Opal Mills was a churchgoing 16-year-old with a close family and no history of sex work. Then a school official told a reporter that her 'pimp' picked her up the day she disappeared. That 'pimp' was her brother making sure she got home safely.
