NWI serial killer targeted sex workers

When Lloyd was just 16, she spent a hellish year working as a sex worker against her will in Colorado.

Now, 35 and a resident of Northwest Indiana, Lloyd recalls being afraid that she would go missing and no one would care.

“There are definitely times when you feel like who is going to look for me? If something happened to me, no one would know where to find me, where to look for me or even how to identify me,” Lloyd said.

During her time as a sex worker, Lloyd said it was difficult to return to her single mom — who she was estranged from — or seek help from police.

“Why would I go try to get help from a cop when there’s a tendency or a possibility of me getting arrested?” she asked.

Lloyd says police need to better understand when a woman is a victim of sex trafficking and not simply a target for arrest.

“The parents file a missing, or runaway report, and then what happens with that? The police are just inundated with other things. They’re not following up on all these leads and you know, [the women] are just gone,” Lloyd said.

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