The mom one in every of two fashions who had been found useless in downtown Los Angeles within the span of per week mentioned she’s been contacted by different family members who concern there could possibly be a serial predator on the market.
“As a father or mother, you by no means need to undergo this,” mentioned Sharon Coats, the mom of 32-year-old Nichole “Nikki” Coats.
She and her household are desperately looking for solutions after her daughter was discovered useless in her high-rise condominium by involved members of the family on Sept. 10.
An aunt who was amongst these to make the ugly discovery mentioned they may not acknowledge Coats and that her mattress was bloodied.
“I consider it was homicide, I actually do,” the aunt mentioned.
Authorities, nevertheless, haven’t revealed something about Coats’ trigger and method of demise.
Two days after Coats’ physique was discovered, 31-year-old Maleesa Mooney, who was a mannequin and an actual property agent, was discovered useless in her luxurious condominium in Bunker Hill.
It stays unclear how Mooney died, however the Los Angeles Division confirmed the case is being investigated as a murder.
Whereas the 2 circumstances may sound coincidental, some concern there’s trigger to sound an alarm.
“On this case, sadly, it seems like they met in their very own condominium, so, clearly, that leads me to consider that it was any person they trusted to permit them into their house, after which the worst occurred,” Moses Castillo, a retired LAPD detective mentioned.
He added that younger fashions are sometimes preyed upon.
“They need to current themselves like ‘look, along with your seems and my brains, we are able to make plenty of cash,’ and make all these guarantees, however as soon as they’re there, they get sexually exploited, they get pressured into doing issues that they don’t need to,” Castillo mentioned.
Finally these households are hoping for solutions and wish others to come back ahead if their daughters additionally died in a mysterious means.
“I’m going to maintain at this till I discover out what occurred,” Sharon Coats mentioned. “You don’t know who else has skilled the identical factor that I’ve and possibly this can assist, I do know it can.”
