Fla. Craigslist jobseeker found dead in Ohio grave

Craigslist users beware!

Seems like Craigslist needs to check into who is placing job ads on their website. The last thing anybody needs is to answer a job ad and end up the victim of a violent predator that wants to rob you or worse, kill you.

Fla. Craigslist jobseeker found dead in Ohio grave

CALDWELL, Ohio (AP) — A sheriff says a jobseeker from Florida has been killed and another from South Carolina has been shot after they responded to a Craigslist ad for a job on an Ohio cattle farm.

Noble County Sheriff Stephen Hannum indicated in an email Friday that he wasn't ready to identify the pair of suspects. The sheriff's office said Hannum would release more information at 11 a.m. EST.

The sheriff says robbery seemed to be the motive.

The Akron Beacon Journal reported on the suspects' ages and said the man was from Akron and the boy was an area high school student.

The Florida man's body was found this week in a remote area about 80 miles east of Columbus.

Hannum says the South Carolina jobseeker who responded to the same ad was shot but escaped.

What gets me the most about this? One of the suspects is just a High School student!

As soon as I find out more about the suspects, I will post it here.

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Fla. Craigslist jobseeker found dead in Ohio grave

In a follow-up, Hannum says a judge had issued a gag order, so no further information would be released. The sheriff says robbery seemed to be the motive.

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New bodies could bring Ohio Craigslist toll to 3

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The discoveries of two new bodies could bring to three the death toll from a Craigslist ad that police say lured victims into a lethal robbery scheme.

A body found Friday in a shallow grave near a mall in Akron may be that of a missing man who answered the ad, the FBI said. And a sheriff in a rural county said later in the day that the body of a white male without identification was found in a shallow grave about 90 miles away.

The FBI is working on the supposition that the body found near the Rolling Acres shopping mall in Akron may be that of 47-year-old Timothy Kern, who hasn't been seen in more than a week, agency spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said.

Looks like we might have a Craigslist Killer/Killers on our hands here in Ohio! It’s kind of hard to get any info because of the courts issuing a gag order on the case.
As soon as I can find out more I will post it here.

I read about the Craigslist Killer in my local news paper i have to admit its very creepy and i hope the don't find anymore bodys from this monster ..I don't use Craigslist to many things have happed to people that have used that site for add placeing ..please keep us updated S&F peace,sugarcookie1

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Unfortunately this is still a problem, although the latest for FL no one was killed this time. The latest plot a few sicke people have come up with in FL is this. Three people were involved with a thought out plan of posting a ad about a big screen TV that was super cheap. A innocent man responded to the to good to be true ad and went out to the location of the sale. The man gets there and before he could see a so called TV he was approached by a man who started beating him. He beat him until he was unconscious and then was robbed of all his money as well as his identification. He came to made his way home, and made the reports with the authorities. About a week after the robbery the victim was contacted by a woman who has his wallet with all of his belongings, and this woman wanted a ransom for the property returned. To make a long story short the assailants were caught and the operation was put together by a stripper who was money hungry. How the trio came together to create such havoc is still unknown although the assailants had this mans home address, phone number, social security number, and the public doesn't even know what else they may have had on the victim. Not worth it saving a few bucks with copy cat thugs out there. It could of been the same disaster all over again with new players. Makes one think twice before dealing with CL.