![]() There were other routine checks for the pathologist to make. Prostitutes got murdered fairly regularly, and this body had a gaping bullet wound in the back of its head. For the rest of it, though, it was all routine for Westphalen. Peacock’s audience at this post-mortem was Dallas homicide detective John Westphalen, who, accustomed to this sort of scene, noted that the body had been knocked about by the killer. She had been found dead by a bunch of kids, lying face down in the street in a nearby residential neighbourhood, on December 13th, 1990.Īmong Dr. Mary Ann Pratt, 33, had worked nights in the notorious Star Motel area in Oak Cliff, Dallas, where as many as 40 prostitutes charged up to $50 for a “flatbed” – jargon for straight sex. ![]() ![]() The notes on the case said she was a hooker. The body wore only a bloodstained T-shirt, and there was more blood on its face. Elizabeth Peacock studied the body stretched out on a blue plastic trolley in the morgue.
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