Four women whose lives ended in a drainage ditch outside Atlantic City
The bodies of four women were found in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City in November 2006 ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- 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: KIM RAFFO, 35. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she met her future husband, Hugh Auslander, when they were both teenagers living there. They got married and moved to a four-bedroom home Florida in the 1990s, and had two kids. She led what relatives said appeared to be a tranquil domestic life with her husband, who worked as a carpenter. A sister described her as a “mom of the year”-type. She volunteered with the Girl Scouts and PTA. A relative said Raffo “was like Martha Stewart” before growing bored with life as a housewife. She enrolled in a cooking class at a technical school, and met a drug user who introduced her to cocaine and heroin. Her husband took the kids and left; Raffo and her boyfriend settled in Atlantic City, ...