Craigslist jobseeker responded to a job ad that lured him to his death

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A jobseeker from Florida who responded to a bogus Craigslist ad for a job on a southeast Ohio cattle farm was found dead, buried in a shallow grave, and another from South Carolina was shot but escaped by running away through the woods, a sheriff said Thursday.

Noble County Sheriff Stephen Hannum said two men were taken into custody after cadaver dogs found the body of the Florida man this week in a grave in a remote area outside Caldwell, a small village about 80 miles east of Columbus.

Authorities received a call five days after the South Carolina man was shot from the Florida man's twin sister, concerned that her brother had not been heard from since Oct. 22 in Parkersburg, W.Va., the sheriff said. The twin, in Boston, said her brother had responded to what she believed was the same Craigslist ad, which sought a caretaker for cattle on a 688-acre farm.

"It's been devastating to see that it can also be used by bad people to take cruel advantage of others," Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said in 2009 at a ceremony honoring a Minnesota woman who died after responding to a phony ad for a baby sitter.

http://news.yahoo.com/fla-craigslist-jobseeker-found-dead-ohio-grave-230030628.html

Not the first and definitely not the last.

[dkf]

1. Sounds like a serial killer. What a sicko.

[sarcasmo]

2. I would say the odds are high that there are few more bodies on that 688 acre farm.

[JoeyT]

3. There are a ton of farm/ranch postings promising absurd amounts of money

on Craigslist. There's one in the New Orleans Craigslist promising $70k a year. Some go into six digits.

I just assumed they were scammers rather than serial killer bait.