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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 for several months on charges of arson and mutilation of a dead body. in november 2012 he's formally ...

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 detroit's 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. >> it's alarming. and obviously, women in the city of detroit, you know, were very concerned. >> ...

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 don't believe that at all. >> but police say renisha landers and the other two women found a week later were posting ads on backpage. >> it's prostitutio...

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 it also riles the victims' families, who bristle at the implication that their daughters may have bee...

>> 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. cnn's 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 says the man became aggressive, wrapping his hands around her throat. >> he was saying "you're going ...