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COMBES, Texas - An Amsterdam prostitute with a history of abusing her customers has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of former Tribune reporter Junior Bonner, and authorities in The Netherlands say he may have been killed and dumped in the frigid North Sea.
"There was a row in her working space between them and something happened," said inspector Einar Gilkison in a long-distance telephone interview. "Our information, second-hand as it is, is that Mr. Bonner requested a series of sexual positions he had diagrammed for the prostitute, blanked-out near the end and then refused to pay for the services, reportedly telling the prostitute he could not recall even meeting her."
The prostitute's name was being withheld pending a court appearance, added Gilkison, a detective who also investigated the vicious killing of another Tribune reporter - Ron Mexico - a month or so earlier. Indeed, it was Mexico's murder that had drawn Bonner to Amsterdam, where, he had said, he was staying until he tracked down Mexico's killers.
Police said they found an inner tube-sized pool of blood on the prostitute's saggy bed and a trail of blood droppings that led first to the small kitchen and then to a dark alley behind the building. In the alley, police found a weathered cowboy boot and a belt buckle adorned with a map of Texas. A hundred feet up the alley, other police officers found a beat-up leather wallet shorn of cash or any sort of identification papers. Police said the wallet had brand markings and appeared to have been purchased at a JC Penney store.
It was not known whether Bonner was drawn to the woman because Ron Mexico may have visited with her prior to his death. Police did acknowledge that she specialized in "weird, goofy-looking clients."
"We found four-five condoms at the foot of the bed, but we have no way of connecting them to Mr. Bonner," said Inspector Gilkison. "They are of the ribbed variety and red in color, if that means anything."
Reached in the living room, Bonner's former live-in girlfriend Sissy Estrada said, "The North Sea is not where a southwestern man like Junior Bonner goes to die. That is so bizarre..."
Bonner hailed from Colorado. A brother, Hargis Bonner, said this: "I blame the goddamned Rio Grande Valley for Junior's death. That place is no good, I tell you. It even smells of death. Junior was a good man, full of kindness and heart. To die in the North Sea says much about God. There is no God...All there is in Life is bullshit, one episode of bullshit after another. Goddammit! I'm in the mood to hit the road down Texas way and kill me somebody, yes sireeee.."
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