List of Craigslist killers

Craigslist killer refers to a person or persons perpetrating the crime of murder against a victim who either posted advertisements to, or answered advertisements via Craigslist, a popular classified advertising website. The first use of the term Craigslist killings may date to October 31, 2007, when the phrase appeared in a headline in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press in Minnesota, in reference to the murder of Katherine Olson by Michael John Anderson, who was then dubbed the "Craigslist killer".
Before the development of the Internet, when similar cases were described in the media, they were commonly known as "want ad murders" or "lonely hearts club murders" due to their method of finding victims through newspaper classified ads and personal or lonely hearts club ads. Since 2007, several suspected and convicted perpetrators have met their victims or solicted murder through Craigslist. Of these, two were convicted for crimes in the three-month period encompassing Febrary to April 2009 and a further four were accused of crimes during the 11-month span of March 2008 through April 2009
*Craigslist killing: Troutman, North Carolina; Bernard George Lamp, a 51 year old resident of Troutman, North Carolina was charged with murder and first-degree kidnapping on March 22, 2008 in the death of Bonnie Lou Irvine, 52, of Cornelius, North Carolina; according to news reports, she had "had agreed to meet the man accused of killing her after encountering him on Craigslist."
* Ann Marie Linscott, a 49 year old Michigan woman, was arrested in January 2008 for soliciting murder on Craigslist, where she offered $5,000 "for someone willing to kill the unsuspecting wife of a man she'd begun an affair with online"; in February, 2009, she was found guilty of attempted murder-for-hire and sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison.
* Craigslist killing: Arlington, Virginia; on December 7, 2008, Matthew Hicks, 32, was fatally shot in Arlington, Virginia by another man whom he had met through an erotic services ad on Craigslist. In January, 2009, Willie Donaldson, 35, was indicted for the murder.

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