Nanny Who Answered Online Ad Found Dead, Man Police Believe Posted Wanted Ad Is In Custody In Minnesota – CBS News — The fact of the matter is an online ad is probably easier to trace than an ad in a newspaper as is proven here. This is a lame attempt to discredit the online advertising juggernaut. Nice try.
Police say an online ad seeking a nanny may have cost a Cottage Grove, Minnesota, woman her life.
Katherine Ann Olson, 24, was found dead in the trunk of her car at a Burnsville, Minnesota, park late Friday night. She was last seen by friends Thursday morning, when she went to meet someone in Savage about the job, which investigators said she had found on Craigslist.org, a popular Internet bulletin board.
A 19-year-old man from Savage who police believe placed the ad is being held in the Scott County jail pending charges…Her family said had taken nanny jobs at least twice before, including a job in Turkey, after answering online ads. They said they had misgivings about her finding jobs online, but she never seemed to worry.
And never forget, nobody has ever been killed before “online” became a problem.
none of the reports I have listened to “blamed” anything about it being online. It’s simply a fact of the story, nothing else. AND a caution for any person dealing with any sort of classified ads. Today most classified ads happen to be online. That’s all.
I blame AOL… they brought all the idiots onto the Internet.
The internet is a very dangerous place, a lot of free speech on there, competition to broadcast and print media too, those are very dangerous things…
Actually the local news here in Minnesota and the family handled this quite well. Several times it was mentioned that the same thing could happen in situations where the ad was not online, the Craigslist founder was interviewed and his statement played and the family held no ill will towards computers, the Internet, etc.
I’m in MN also. I haven’t seen anyone blame the Internet. About all I’ve seen is a caution not to answer these types of ads alone. Sound advice.
I upgraded to Vista last week so I’m in a mood to blame computers for everything.
Hell, Vista is less popular in my home than Xian fundies and Bush supporters (both of which can be found online) at the moment.
I told her to take out the garbage but the bitch took her sweet ass time.