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* Want to get your health up for free in ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]''? Hire a prostitute, engage in her services, then kill her to get the money back. However, the media attention given to this tactic goes contrary to the trope. The game rewards almost nonstop violence against every kind of character, but the tactic of killing prostitutes has become its most infamous feature.
** Lampshaded in ''[[Chinatown Wars]]'' with Cherie's mission. She thinks that Huang is going to hire her, then turns violent, thinking that Huang is "one of those guys who hires a hooker and kills them afterward." Chinatown Wars does not have the "hire a hooker to regain health" system, though.
* One of the Templar Agent missions in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' sends Ezio after [[Bilingual Bonus|Malfatto]], a street doctor targeting Ezio's courtesan allies like a 15th century Jack the Ripper.
** On the other hand, Ezio actually ''has'' courtesan allies, and three major supporting characters are madames who do not react well at all to anyone killing their charges. That such women are seen as the dregs of society, somehow less human than the middle-class or nobles, forms a minor subplot.
* Inverted in the ''Godfather'' video game. A major part of the plot revolves around protecting the sex workers. Outside of that, flirting with them gets the charcter bonuses.
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== Real Life ==
* [[Jack the Ripper]] is a proto-example of a [[Serial Killer]] targeting prostitutes. Most murders of common victims such as prostitutes and laborers were ignored by the media, but serial killers were a fairly new phenomenon, and the Ripper murders horrified the city. Backlash against the inept handling of the investigation by the police caused numerous social reform movements and changes within the Metropolitan Police.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_Killer:Green River Killer|Gary Ridgway]], the 'Green River Killer', who is convicted of murdering 48 women, all but one of them a prostitute. He confessed to 71, and likely killed 90+. He spent 21 years killing women until he was found, including several in a day at various times.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wright_:Steve Wright (serial_killer)serial killer)|Steve Wright]], who murdered five women in Ipswich, England, all prostitutes. The media portrayed the victims in a fairly unsympathetic tone. ''[[British Newspapers|Daily Mail]]'' columnist Richard Littlejohn wrote a piece which essentially insinuated that the victims got what they deserved, causing a backlash.
** The BBC drama about this (Five Daughers) is 100% an inversion, as it focusses entirely on the women and Steve Wright is just a shadowy menace in the background. It also showed how the huge focus on the case stretched the local police force to the limit.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton:Robert Pickton|Robert William Pickton]]. Suspected of killing 46 women abducted from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (he is convicted for the murder of 6 of the women, and charged for the death of another 20), Pickton was eventually caught and tried, but not until the families of the many women he murdered raised an uproar over the fact that the police just didn't seem interested in investigating the disappearances of people who were all women, mostly sex workers and disproportionately First Nations.
* Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. Not all of his victims were prostitutes, but most were. What's even more disturbing is the reaction to the crimes. Upon hearing of another attack, some men would shout things like "Twelve - nil" and "There's only one Yorkshire Ripper" in the style of a football chant. Some of the controversy stemmed from the media's tendency to distinguish Sutcliffe's non-prostitute targets as "innocent victims", with the implication being that the prostitutes almost deserved their fate.
* Joel Rifkin, believed to have killed 17 prostitutes, was actually caught with a dead hooker in the trunk of his car.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Shawcross:Arthur Shawcross#Second_series_of_murdersSecond series of murders|Arthur Shawcross]], convicted of killing 11 women, most prostitutes, in the Rochester, NY area in the late 1980s.(He had been paroled from prison in 1987 after serving time for the deaths of two young children in 1972.)
* In late 2010/early 2011, at least 9 bodies have been found in Long Island, NY, some of which have been identified as prostitutes. Police believe it to be the work of at least one serial killer [http://abcnews.go.com/US/long-island-bodies-killer/story?id=13346276 (details here)].
 
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