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Times I agree with William Goldman
Strange things.
I found out today, by happenstance that an acquaintance (dear friend of a daer friend), is dead.
Not by reason of age, nor occupation, nor yet (would that it were) by misadventure. No, she was murdered.
Oddly enough, were I the sort to go to strip clubs, I might have seen her, a month before she was killed.
Dallas News
It requires registration, so a relevant excerpt:
Tiffany Dotson, an outspoken 18-year-old blond dancer from California, was dead. So was a "Zoe," a Louisiana coast native with red hair and emerald green eyes. And so was Mohamed Amine Rahmouni, the boisterous and popular Moroccan bar manager, and his friend, Haitham Zayed, a bystander probably in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The two men were killed the night after Thanksgiving, shot as they stood outside their car on a dark section of Old Copperas Cove Road a few miles from the bar.
The two women died on Sunday evening the same way – shot on a remote road near a state park outside Killeen. They were in the black Jeep Wrangler that Zoe had borrowed from her boyfriend. They had been on their way to perform at a strip club in Austin....
Mr. Tabler claimed he reeled the women in by promising to sell them crack. Police said Ms. Dotson might have been targeted because she was pointing to Mr. Tabler as a suspect in the first two killings. She also was Mr. Tabler's favorite dancer and had rejected his advances several times....
Bar managers and dancers adamantly deny that Ms. Dotson or the other workers were involved in drugs or stolen goods. According to Killeen police records, there have been no narcotics-related incidents in more than a year at the address Teazers shares with three other bars at the end of the main drag on the south edge of town.
I saw her last sometime in Aug/Sep. She was amused that I recalled her name. When the fiend of mine was having trouble at home, a few years ago, she left and spent a couple of months at with Tiffany and her mother.
Bright, lively, a trifle flighty (I recall, when she was 16, that I thought her boyfriend was too old for her [20ish] full of crap and not the best guy she could find, but at 16, one expects some of that).
She left L.A. because she didn't like the nature of the clubs here.
So, had I been the sort who likes a strip club, I could have wandered into Teazers, at the end of Oct, when I was at Ft. Hood, and seen more of Tiffany than I otherwise would. I think it might have been amusing. Both of us a trifle disconcerted, but able to cope (one assumes she'd had people she knew show up, when she was working closer to where she grew up...).
I am at a loss. I don't know what to write, how to sum up. It's always shocked me when someone I knew has been murdered. No less so this time.
I found out today, by happenstance that an acquaintance (dear friend of a daer friend), is dead.
Not by reason of age, nor occupation, nor yet (would that it were) by misadventure. No, she was murdered.
Oddly enough, were I the sort to go to strip clubs, I might have seen her, a month before she was killed.
Dallas News
It requires registration, so a relevant excerpt:
Tiffany Dotson, an outspoken 18-year-old blond dancer from California, was dead. So was a "Zoe," a Louisiana coast native with red hair and emerald green eyes. And so was Mohamed Amine Rahmouni, the boisterous and popular Moroccan bar manager, and his friend, Haitham Zayed, a bystander probably in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The two men were killed the night after Thanksgiving, shot as they stood outside their car on a dark section of Old Copperas Cove Road a few miles from the bar.
The two women died on Sunday evening the same way – shot on a remote road near a state park outside Killeen. They were in the black Jeep Wrangler that Zoe had borrowed from her boyfriend. They had been on their way to perform at a strip club in Austin....
Mr. Tabler claimed he reeled the women in by promising to sell them crack. Police said Ms. Dotson might have been targeted because she was pointing to Mr. Tabler as a suspect in the first two killings. She also was Mr. Tabler's favorite dancer and had rejected his advances several times....
Bar managers and dancers adamantly deny that Ms. Dotson or the other workers were involved in drugs or stolen goods. According to Killeen police records, there have been no narcotics-related incidents in more than a year at the address Teazers shares with three other bars at the end of the main drag on the south edge of town.
I saw her last sometime in Aug/Sep. She was amused that I recalled her name. When the fiend of mine was having trouble at home, a few years ago, she left and spent a couple of months at with Tiffany and her mother.
Bright, lively, a trifle flighty (I recall, when she was 16, that I thought her boyfriend was too old for her [20ish] full of crap and not the best guy she could find, but at 16, one expects some of that).
She left L.A. because she didn't like the nature of the clubs here.
So, had I been the sort who likes a strip club, I could have wandered into Teazers, at the end of Oct, when I was at Ft. Hood, and seen more of Tiffany than I otherwise would. I think it might have been amusing. Both of us a trifle disconcerted, but able to cope (one assumes she'd had people she knew show up, when she was working closer to where she grew up...).
I am at a loss. I don't know what to write, how to sum up. It's always shocked me when someone I knew has been murdered. No less so this time.
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The murder (or even the death, when you're young) of a friend too early, is always jarring, a reminder of our own mortality. Even with the constant reminders one must get, you still just don't expect it below, oh, 70. Or I don't. Before then, to me, is 'too soon'.
Take a Walk on the wild side
I believe I read they knew who did it? Sometimes, drugs are not the reason for death, only the things that travel near drugs and what they do when high. She may have witnessed something that to let her walk away was too risky. Who is to say. But if her family won't champion the case, I wonder how the city will look for the one who did it or even feel it is a matter of concern.
And if I am correct with the above paragraph, I always wonder why? It's men that dancers serve and prostitutes also, and they act like their being there is just a matter of circumstance and not one to judge or not judge. It's like they have the dispensation to gloat, jerk off and get pleasure and bare none of the consequences for the decadance or the fact that they have left the civilized world for the wild wild west so to speak and their ethics are on call to be messed with and deliberately breaches begin between honesty and ethics when the wild side is the world you go see for fun.
Re: Take a Walk on the wild side
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2 Yrs and no solace
(Anonymous) 2006-06-28 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)