Halloween Missed Connections: Broken Hearts & Walks of Shame

Oh, I love it. Halloween is just the gift that keeps on giving. Once the sun comes up and the tape holding your costume together starts to unstick, everyone takes stock of the night before (and the morning after)....

Susan Finkelstein Arrested for Offering Sex for Phillies Tickets

Susan Finkelstein was arrested for allegedly offering to exchange sex for 2 Phillies World Series tickets on Craigslist. An undercover officer contacted her, and she offered to perform sex acts for the tickets....

Janet Schulte Duped to Care for Man Pretending to be Retarded

Janet Schulte from Florida was duped on Craigslist into caring for a man who she thought was developmentally disabled. The man who hired her pretended to be his own brother when she answered his ad on Craigslist. He told her he had a brother who was retarded and needed...

Jenni Brennan, Horrified Mom, Sees Baby Jacob For Sale Online

Jenni Brennan must have felt like she was living a nightmare when she saw a Craigslist ad selling her baby boy Jacob.  The horrified mom saw the baby for sale ad online after receiving an email telling her...

Teen Girls Selling Sex on Craigslist, Police Say

The world of high tech and the oldest profession have combined in North Vancouver with the discovery that teen girls are selling sex on Craigslist.  According to the authorities, some girls are acting...

Craigslist Killer Philip Markoff Pleads Not Guilty

Philip Markoff, the 23-year old medical student accused of being the Craigslist Killer, has plead not guilty to first degree murder charges in the death of Julissa Brisman. Markoff also plead not guilty to all related charges in the Brisman murder, and not guilty to charges...

David Lee Gage, Craigslist rapist, commits suicide

David Lee Gage, the so-called Craigslist rapist, was found guilty in May 2009 of raping 3 women he found using Craigslist's 'erotic services.' Apparently unable to face time in prison David Lee Gage decided to commit suicide.  Gage was found dead in his jail cell in...

Craigslist 2009 Revenue to Hit $100 Million

Craigslist may not know much about website theming, but it knows how to make money. The online classified's projected 2009 revenue is expected to top $100 million. This is a 23% increase over last year's profit. Most of craigslist's ads are posted by users free of charge, but...

Craigslist Scammer Scammed by Skunkfeathers

Editor’s note: The post below was written and published by my friend, Skunkfeathers, at his blog of the same name.  While I’ve condensed it slightly to reduce its carbon footprint (just kidding), I have...

Craigslist Killer Murders Women Who Advertise Casual Encounters

It was only a matter of time before a serial psycho used Craigslist as a hunting ground. A killer is luring and robbing young women who advertise casual encounters on the classifieds site; he has already murdered...

Sheriff Gunning for Craigslist Hookers

" The Cook County Sheriff: Craigslist is "largest source of prostitution in nation" sheriff is filing a lawsuit against Craigslist.org, calling it the "single largest source of prostitution in the nation." The...

Scalpers Offer Hundreds of 2010 Olympic Tickets Online

If you're sticking around Vancouver for the Games here's how you can actually watch them. "Tickets for Vancouver's 2010 Olympic Games were for sale on the internet just a few short hours after the people who won the...

Sex Slaves Find Hope

On Thursday Craigslist introduced measures to crack down on human trafficking - but only in America.  What about Canada?   "Her body didn't look a day over her age -- 14. The stretched scraps of...

Artist or Pervert or Great Idea?

Don Tuttle, who regularly attempted to get women to pose nude, was in jail in Las Vegas Thursday after allegedly violating terms of his Colorado probation. You decide Artist or Pervert  Artist or Pervert or...

Nigerian Scammers are Still Scamming

I really think people think other people are stupid. Last night, I was the attempted "victim" of a internet scam. I wouldn't have fallen for it, but it is the first time someone has tried to pull one of these on...

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