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Jul 1, 2008 10:38 am US/Eastern

No Links Suspected In Baltimore Strangulations

BALTIMORE (AP) ―

A Baltimore Police Department spokesman says police do not believe the recent strangulations of women with prostitution convictions are related.

According to police records, former police Commissioner Leonard Hamm's stepdaughter, Nicole Sesker, was the third woman with a prostitution record to be strangled in June. A fourth woman was strangled in April.

The chief of the city's detectives, Col. John Bevilacqua, has ordered a review of every similar case in the past decade. The Baltimore Examiner reports the four recent cases bring the number of unsolved strangulations of women in the city since 2003 to nine.

An organization that provides food and shelter to prostitutes, You Are Never Alone, says an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 women work as prostitutes in Baltimore.

(© 2008 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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