right. her name is elizabeth sorano. jessica and elizabeth worked for mario. both say he abused them. he was good con artist. it all started when she was 18, on her way to becoming a code breaker for the air force. she was about to be deployed, she says, when arrested for joy riding in a stolen car. as a result, the air force dropped her. i was already processed. just waiting to graduate high school. elizabeth says she was sitting in jail when approached by another woman in the lockup. she said she had a friend that owned an escort service and she could get me in. out of money, desperate, elizabeth called the owner of the escort service mario davis. soon, she was turning tricks. i had a quota. you know, i had to make that quota. what was the quota for you. $1200 to $1500 a night.
chris hansen with dateline nbc. how you doing? that s when i catch up to him. did you ever beat jessica? no. did you ever beat elizabeth? no. and the truth will come out. only thing i m guilty of being black and having a girlfriend that was a prostitute. that s all i m guilty of. jessica and elizabeth told us they were two of at least a dozen women working for mario. there s no crime in having 15 girlfriends. i m not married. i m still young. no crime in having 15 girlfriends. that s all i m saying. the question is, were they going out, turning tricks giving you the money? that s what i m saying no they wasn t. how do you make your living? i a 1. a 1-2 what? i m an escort myself. mario might be a male escort, but now a felon, pleaded guilty to pandering with force. as part of a plea bargain he ll be on five years prohibition.
she say she s tried to leave, but he wouldn t let her. he would be like, go pack your stuff and then if i actually did it, oh, he d beat me severely. she escaped when mario took a trip out of town. he wasn t there to stop me. tons of evidence. detective boffman got the case and knew who he was looking for. the detective and the pimp went to high school together where mario was a star basketball player. did you ever imagine 20 years ago this basketball star, a year older than you, would become the target of one of your major investigations? nope. small town. small town, man. the detective arrested his former classmate, and charged him with pandering, selling elizabeth s body for sex. he said he d been doing it, these girls were drawn to him. later, when mario was out on bail, the detective got the call about another abuse case, it was jessica, the woman we introduced you to earlier.
how much did you get to keep? none of it. she say she s tried to leave, but he wouldn t let her. he would be like, go pack your stuff and then if i actually did it, oh, he d beat me severely. she escaped when mario took a trip out of town. he wasn t there to stop me. tons of evidence. detective boffman got the case and knew who he was looking for. turns out, the detective and the pimp went to high school together where mario was a star basketball player. did you ever imagine 20 years ago in high school this basketball star, a year older than you, would become the target of one of your investigations? nope. small town. small town, man. the detective arrested his former classmate, and charged him with pandering, selling elizabeth s body for sex. he said he d been doing it, these girls were drawn to him. a few months later, when
that s when i catch up to him. ever beat jessica? no. every beat elizabeth. no. and the truth will come out. only thing i m guilty of being black and having a girlfriend that was a prostitute. that s all i m guilty of. jessica and elizabeth told us they were two of at least a dozen women working for mario. there s no crime in having 15 girlfriends. i m not married. i m still young. no crime in having 15 girlfriends. that s all i m saying. the question is, were they going out, turning tricks giving you the money? that s what i m saying no they wasn t. how do you make your living? i a 1. a 1-2. i m an escort myself. mario might be a male escort, but now a felon, pleaded guilty to pandering with force. as part of a plea bargain he ll be on five years prohibition. the detective believes for now he s put mario out of commission.