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Falling Dominoes

John Sherman went to the Hales Corners, Wisc., police to file a complaint: $300 had gone missing from his business, Oriental Massage. Detectives launched an investigation and confronted the thief, who turned informant and said that he took the money after an employee took money from him — after a sex act. Undercover detectives booked massages, and sure enough, they were offered “extra services” afterward from the ladies at all four branches of Sherman’s business, located in St. Francis, Franklin, Greenfield, and Hales Corners. It’s unclear whether Sherman has been charged; the women involved, police say, all appear to have fled home to China. Before that, they all lived together in a “cramped apartment” above a Chinese restaurant in Milwaukee, called Ho Ho’s. (RC/WITI Milwaukee) ...Sometimes, the taglines just write themselves.
Original Publication Date: 31 January 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 22.

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