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To be sure that the internet is a place where girls and women and others are not sold online. one quick story, we had a person testify at our hearing whose daughter had been missing for nine months. she calls backpage because someone tells her that she ought to look on that site for her daughter, which she does. she finds a photo of her daughter, 14-year-old girl. she calls and says, oh, my gosh, nine months after my daughter going missing, ive found her on your site. thank you for closing down ...

It talks about a website that i had not heard of called back page. maybe everybody else has. what did you discover about back page and why you think its important to focus on this and if i could ask, do you think the new attorney general, jeff sessions, will be as focused on human trafficking as you have been? >> first, its an incredibly important issue. unfortunately, human trafficking and specifically sex trafficking of minors is something thats grown over the last several years and one reason...

Ruined the game. >> even master mico, the old school hustler from detroit, says the boom of online ads has made the game more risky for everyone by attracting more wannabe pimps, more deviant customers, and ever younger girls with absolutely no street savvy. >> i think theres a tendency now for little susie in the suburbs at 16 years old, shes online, oh, whats this, backpage, those girls look kind of cute. she has low self-esteem. she thinks that maybe she could, you know, fit in somewhere. nex...

In detroit, hunting and killing young women two at a time. >> when you add to that there was a connection between three of the four deceased to a website called backpage.com, the a-ha moment came very quickly in our investigation. >> recently, there have within two certainty incidences -- >> on december 26th chief godbee calls a press conference to alert the public to the clear and present danger of what the local media have now dubbed the backpage killer. >> there is an immediate danger. there ...

Murders in long island have reignited a national debate about the role of ad-based websites like backpage and redbook in facilitating the business of human trafficking. >> regardless of the disclaimers, regardless of the legalese that these sites hide behind, the reality is the resultant behavior is illegal. >> while many men view the smiling women in online sex ads as independent contractors selling their wares, bridgette carr says americans need to wake up and face reality. >> what do you see ...

Die. so i just wanted to be very clear, when we came public, especially to the families of the deceased, we were not passing any kind of character assessment or moral assessment on their loved one, but given the nature of the business that was being conducted on backpage, like i said, it would have been unconscionable for us not to go public with what we knew. >> in may 2012 their hard work pays off. police arrest 24-year-old james brown in the detroit suburb of sterling heights. brown is held f...

Separate incidences where two young ladies in each incident have been discovered deceased in vehicles on the east side of detroit. >> we have four homicides of which a serial pattern is developing. >> the first set of women were found on december 19th, dead in the trunk of a car on promenade street on detroits east side. >> investigators now believe three of the victims may have met their killer online in the adult services section of the website backpage.com. >> this tie for us is disconcerting...

Young girls do. >> in fact, there is no backpage link to demesha hunt. and chikita reminds us that her daughter renisha came from a solid family, had a well-paying job at chrysler, and no logical reason to sell her body for cash. >> they have a very large family. everybody helps everybody. if either one of them needed anything, they could have gotten it. >> but as far as them meeting with someone on an escort to get a couple of dollars, no, i dont believe that at all. >> but police say renisha l...

People off of the street? >> investigators discover a crucial circumstantial link between the two cases. three of the four victims had posted profiles online in the adult services section of the classified ad website backpage.com. >> when there was a definitive tie to backpage.com, and adult escort services, from a serial pattern standpoint it helped us to understand who the targets are. >> this tie for us is disconcerting. >> the backpage connection helps police focus their investigation, but i...

>> greg bourke, nice to have you on. thank you. >> thank you very much. in west virginia, a woman fights off the man attacking her, grabbing his gun and then shooting him to death but the story does not end there. cnns boris sanchez as more now. >> i knew he was there to kill me. i could tell he had already done something because he said he was going to prison for a long time. >> reporter: after opening her door to a stranger who answered her escort ad on backpage.com, a west virginia woman sa...