LA Dreams charged its clients around $250 of which Tina got $150, according to author Fannie Weinstein, who appeared on Forensic Files. So what kind of wages did Tina snag as an escort? According to the City Confidential episode “Detroit: A Coed’s Secret,” she sometimes freelanced by cutting out the agencies. She’d been in the biz for about a year.īusy biz.
It turned out that Tina also worked for two other escort services, Elite Desires and Calendar Girls, and had dozens of clients. Narrator Peter Thomas gently explains what an escort service is and, because even a tasteful show like Forensic Files can’t resist the myth that prostitution is sexy, the episode features visuals of women wriggling out of front-zipped miniskirts while anonymous customers watch. LA Dreams didn’t know anything about a Tina Biggar, but the service did have a popular escort named Crystal who matched her description - 5-foot-7 with blond hair and perfect white teeth. The red duffle contained thigh-highs, KY Jelly, condoms, and correspondence with the LA Dreams escort service. Her parents offered a $5,000 reward for help.īack at Tina’s apartment, boyfriend Todd had discovered an “OMG, my girlfriend’s moonlighting as a call girl” bag. The escort service faced some minor legal consequences after Tina Biggar’s deathīy Sept. A friend told the Oakland Post that Tina “put her all in this study.” Tina interviewed prostitutes both on the streets and in jail. Tina got her life back on track and started college at South Dakota State University, then transferred to Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, to be closer to Traverse City, where her father was stationed.īy summer 1995, the psychology major was getting ready to start her senior year in college and had plans to attend graduate school.Īlthough Forensic Files didn’t mention it, before Tina began her independent study about sex work, she was one of eight Oakland students who worked on a larger project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to educate prostitutes about HIV and AIDS, then follow up to gauge their retention.ĭifferent world. They educated their kids at Catholic schools and participated in church activities and community goings-on.įriends would later describe Tina as a hard worker who was friendly and fun to be with.Īs a teenager, Tina gave up a baby girl for adoption after her relationship with the father - a Coast Guard enlisted man - turned abusive, according to the Already Gone podcast. The Biggars moved around a lot, to Florida, Alaska, and Michigan. 31, 1971, the daughter of a Coast Guard commander and a registered nurse. Tina Suzanne Biggar was born in South Dakota on Dec.
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