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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 for several months on charges of a...

Murders really across the country. >> reporter: a west virginia woman says she narrowly escaped with her life after meeting 45-year-old neil falls. >> he was saying you are going to be quiet. im going to call the orders. >> reporter: the woman, heather, met falls after he entered her escort add on backpage.com. she says he became aggressive within minutes wrapping his hands on her throat. >> when he laid the gun done to get the rake out of my hands. i shot him. >> reporter: moments later she was...

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...

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 is a person thats potentially pr...

Backpage.com. heres the 911 call. >> theres a lady in the alley here. shes saying that some guy tried to rape her and she had to defend herself and she shot him and hes in the kitchen. he pulled a gun on me. shes got cuts and stuff all over her. >> she knows who this guy is? >> do you know who the guy is? >> no. >> she said no. >> i opened the door and he said live or die and he -- >> did he actually rape her? >> im not sure. she said he tried to. >> was she able to injure him in any way? >> yes...

Internet site backpage makes it possible for this sacramento college student to sell herself 2,000 miles from home. >> youre under arrest for prostitution. were taking you in. >> calm and cooperative, she claims she operates alone. >> you use the lobby computer to post? how are you posting something? >> either posting on the that computer or have my best friend post from my iphone or i post from my iphone. >> a quick search of the internet reveals, thanks to backpage, alexis suites has logged a ...

Tonight for the men seeking sex for sale but across metro chicago, day or night, men continue the order girls to go with a simple click of the mouse. from anal sex to oral sex to three-on-one, investigators say women and underage girls are sold on websites like backpage. >> their entire site is existing so that traffickers and pimps can have a place to sell women. >> im fed up and im tired. and this is going to stop. >> in 2009, cook county sheriff tom dart, was part of the legal effort to shut ...

Tonight for the men seeking sex for sale but across metro chicago, day or night, men continue the order girls to go with a simple click of a mouse. from anal sex to oral sex to three-on-one, investigators say women and underage girls are sold on websites like backpage. >> their entire site is existing so that traffickers and pimps can have a place to sell women. >> im fed up and im tired. and this is going to stop. >> in 2009, cook county sheriff tom dart, was part of the legal effort to shut do...

On the internet. well make the calls and they will come to us. don already has some dates. also answering the ads. we have two teams going on. were going to post some ads of our own and try to have some men and the ads to come to the hotel. >> todays operation is comprehensive, attacking both the supply and demand side of the sex for sale equation and focusing primarily on the digital street corner that is backpage.com. >> first of all, theres hundreds of sites out there. backpage is out there b...

>> in the 25 years i was in prostitution ive been shot five times, stabbed 13 times, beat, kidnapped, held against my will. all those things happen when youre in prostitution. every time you go out there and somebody puts a gun to your head, your chances get lessened, you know what i mean? i understand where they came from, who they are. who better to send in and talk to them than somebody who has been through it. thats what i do. >> its a little after 1:00 p.m. when the task force sets up in th...