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THE MOM of a missing woman who shares similarities to the Gilgo Beach murder victims has issued a chilling warning.
Glendene Grant lost her 21-year-old daughter, Jessie Foster, in 2006.
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Foster, from Kamloops, British Columbia, was on an extended stay in Las Vegas, Nevada when she vanished for 17 years and counting.
Grant insists that her daughter was a victim of human sex trafficking after a private investigator that the family hired later discovered that Foster was being forced into sex work and beaten, having to go to the hospital for a broken jaw.
While Grant's trafficking theory has never been confirmed by the North Las Vegas Police Department, the agency told The U.S., Sun that the NLVPD "looks at all possibilities and follows up on any leads during an investigation."
Foster's mom saw similarities between her daughter and the sex workers who were found dead near Gilgo Beach on Long Island, New York in December 2010.
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Grant has now warned that predators are on the hunt for "pretty" women to lure into human sex trafficking.
Rex Heuermann, 59, was arrested in July for the murder of Megan Waterman, 22, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27, who went missing between 2009 and 2010.
Heuermann, who maintains his innocence, is the prime suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, who vanished in 2007.
"The beautiful women with long blonde hair," Grant called the two of them in an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun.
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"I honestly think that these beautiful women that are kidnapped and trafficked, that their beauty is part of that downfall," Foster's mom said, noting that it is "what these people look for."
She added: "Unfortunately, there's way too many women who are paying the price."
Waterman's family reportedly thought she was a victim of human sex trafficking before she vanished as well.
Grant touched on how these horrific crimes against these women affected their loved ones.
"The traffickers and the pimps and all the Johns are just living their life while the women are being forced to do horrific things.
"And once something even more tragic happens, like they go missing or they're found murdered, our lives will never be the same," Grant said.
Grant also compared the timing of Foster's disappearance to that of the Gilgo Beach murder victims and other young sex workers who went missing or were found in Nevada.
"Jessie's definitely connected, if not because it was the same person who did it, she's definitely connected as these women all went missing around the same time," she said.
Heuermann had ties to Sin City after reportedly buying a timeshare condo near the Las Vegas Strip in 2005.
In 2005, another 21-year-old sex worker from Nevada, Lindsay Harris, vanished only for her remains to later be found on an Illinois highway.
The Las Vegas Police Department is currently looking into a DNA link between Heuermann and DNA found in the murder case of Victoria Camara, a 17-year-old sex worker from New Jersey who was found in the Nevada desert.
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There was also a young Las Vegas sex worker who went missing in 2003. The torso of Jodi Brewer, 19, was found in the Mojave Desert in California.
When asked if the NLVPD was looking at Foster's case more closely following the arrest of Heuermann, the department said: "If additional investigative leads are discovered, they will be investigated thoroughly by our detectives."