![]() She began selling sex on the streets, where co-workers called her “the young one” or “the pretty one.” She lived in the same run-down area of seedy rooming houses as Raffo, whom she had befriended on the streets. She lived in Philadelphia before working in strip clubs in and around Atlantic City, but drug use took a toll on her appearance, and club owners stopped hiring her. As a teenager, Roberts dropped out of high school and briefly studied to become a medical assistant. She had been strangled with either a rope or a cord. She was clad in a Hard Rock Cafe tank top when her body was found after a few days in the ditch. Her husband took the kids and left Raffo and her boyfriend settled in Atlantic City, where she worked as a waitress before turning to prostitution. She enrolled in a cooking class at a technical school, and met a drug user who introduced her to cocaine and heroin. A relative said Raffo “was like Martha Stewart” before growing bored with life as a housewife. She volunteered with the Girl Scouts and PTA. A sister described her as a “mom of the year”-type. She led what relatives said appeared to be a tranquil domestic life with her husband, who worked as a carpenter. They got married and moved to a four-bedroom home Florida in the 1990s, and had two kids. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she met her future husband, Hugh Auslander, when they were both teenagers living there. The four women whose bodies were found in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City in November 2006, in the order that they were identified: ![]()
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