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>> in 2009 cook county sheriff tom dart was part of the legal effort to stop down the erotic services section of craigslist. >> just calling to see if you have anything available for today. >> now his troops are taking aim at backpage, which he says makes millions from the misery of others. >> if we have a website that puts on hits for spouses. well, we're not putting on the hits for the spouses. we just set up the website. we are then telling law enforcement. yeah, the problem is by the time we get there, the people are all dead already. so we rather you take the website down. i mean, come on...

>> on the site, users can buy an ipod, hire a nanny or buy sex using the erotic services section with tens of thousands of new postings every day. >> these are advertisements for prostitution placed by pimps and craigslist is assisting or actually functioning as an online pimp. >> these are advertisements for prostitution placed by pimps and >> using code words like roses or diamonds, photos show men just what they're buying for their time.

What happened. jeff? >> reporter: good afternoon. everyone involved in the case told us they are shocked by it. from prosecutors who are gathering evidence and getting ready for trial, to markoff's lawyer, to his own parents who we spoke with by phone and they told us they are devastated by this. sources say inside his own jail cell, philip markoff used his background and training as a medical student to kill himself. he took a pen and stuck it into his neck and cut an artery and into his leg and cut another artery before putting a plastic bag over his head. it happened on saturday night, what...

Putting a plastic bag over his head. the fiance who dumped him shortly after his arrest. >> when the anniversary came up he realized he was never going have anything like that ever again. he was going spend his life in prison and that was something he couldn't face. >> this clean cut medical student was accused of leading a secret double life. by day the all american boy engaged and planning a wedding that would never. by night the craigs list killer. attacking women he found on the erotic services section. >> the family was getting ready preparing for the trial getting set to actually look th...

Illegal activity. they announced the erotic services section was going away after pressure and police say a masseuse was murdered. the website is in hot water again, this time for making $36 million off of the controversial adult ads which critics say is bla blatant solicitations for sex. nick thompson, senior editor of "wired." you have been communicating and asking questions of the ceo of craigslist, who wrote back to you. we'll have more on that. first let's start with attorney general blumen thal, when you called for them to purge the erotic services section, which they did and also talked...