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>> recently there have been two 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. >> ...

Deviant individual to be able to manipulate a system and hurt someone who does not deserve to 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. po...

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...

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 landers and the other two women found a week later were posting ads on b...

>> 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. >> its alarming. and obviously, women in the city of detroit, you know, were very concerned. >> the murders are a brutal reminder...

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 arson and mutilation of a dea...

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...

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 it also riles the victims families, who bristle at the implication that their daughters may have been selling sex online. >> they were n...

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...

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 it also riles the victims families, who bristle at the implication that their daughters may have been selling sex online. >> they were n...