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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. brown pleads...

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 that's potentially preying on women of a specific age in their early 20s that have utilized backpage.com or maybe other ...

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 not prostitutes. they were not prostitutes. >> they were young girls that had goals in life. my daug...

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 there's a tendency now for little susie in the suburbs at 16 years old, she's online, oh, what's this, backpage, those girls look kind of cute. she has low self-esteem. she thinks that maybe she could, you know, fit in somewhere. next thing you know, hey, you want to make this money, blah, blah, blah. and a lot of them guys will...

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 not prostitutes. they were not prostitutes. >> they were young girls that had goals in life. my daug...