The Register: 24-year-old sought babysitting job A Minnesota woman was killed after answering a nanny job advertised on Craigslist. It is the first murder on the site, which offers free classified ads hawking just about anything you can imagine.

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New York Times: A 19-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a woman who answered an advertisement for a baby sitter on Craigslist, the online bulletin board. The authorities said the man, Michael J. Anderson, lured the woman to his home Thursday, shot her and left her in her car’s …

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SFGate: “Once in a lifetime opportunity to own a piece of the very desirable San Francisco Bay!” It’s rare to encounter Bay Area real estate both interesting and inexpensive, but this recent ad on Craigslist promised far more. This place seemed to have it all….

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New York Times: Aspiring writers are using Craigslist as a pixeled writing workshop where they test their stabs at social satire on some of the more than 30 million visitors that the site draws each month.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/30/craigslist_murder/

The first death caused by Craigslist - as always be careful who you trust, online or off.

A Minnesota woman was killed after answering a nanny job advertised on Craigslist. It is the first murder on the site, which offers free classified ads hawking just about anything you can imagine.

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