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>> recently there have been two separate incidence 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 there, a serial pattern is developing. >> the first women were found dead in the trupgs of a car on promenade street. >> investigators believe three of the victims may have met their culler online in the adult services section of the website backpage.com. >> it's alarming. and obviously, women in the city of detroit, you know, were very concerned. >> the murders are a brutal reminder of the constant ...

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 dead body. in november 2012 he's formally charged with four counts of first-degree murder. the case in ...

Purchasing adolescent girls for sex every month. that was just in the state of georgia. it was a reflection of the way that technology has transformed the child sex trade. it's gone from the streets to online. at the center of it all is the classified website, back page.com, where advocates claim underage dpirls are regularly trafficked for sex. until recently, it was owned and operated by alternative weekly company, village voice media incorporated which made an estimatesed $22 million in fees off the site. in a buyout deal announced this week, the newspaper and the if yaled weeklies are spli...

Andrea, this is clearly a central -- i mean, ife we're going to solve this, we can't rescue them one by one. we have to solve it at the source. what can we do about a back page? >> it's important to point out that organizations like fair girls, we are drowning in girls coming to our office. it's because village voice -- back page.com now, this is a smoke and mirrors effort on their part. but nonetheless, this, because the marketplace is so vast and so unregulated. so what needs to take place are three things. one, public education. we need to make people understand these aren't just girls some...

That is financially unattractive for lacy and larkin who own back page.com. i'm saying their name on purpose this time. i've never done that before. sitting down the hall from me are girls like asia, but younger, 12, 13, 14, or even 18 or 19 who were bought and sold on their website and they know about it because i've sent them letters and photos. i've begged their reporters that they say screen the ads. do something about this. this is a real girl, a real situation. no response at all. then finally, i think that what's really amazing about asia and other girls who are speaking up, they're sho...