Prostitute’s murder fuels AG’s fight vs. online sex ads

[unhappycamper]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/07/prostitute_s_murder_fuels_ag_s_fight_vs_online_sex_ads

Prostitute’s murder fuels AG’s fight vs. online sex ads
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Joe Dwinell, O’Ryan Johnson

Attorney General Maura Healey is sounding the alarm on the online classified ad site Backpage after prosecutors say a female prostitute was murdered at a Burlington hotel by two suspects authorities fear may be serial predators.

Epshod Jeune, 24, of Burlington, and Derrell Fisher, 21, of Roxbury, were ordered held without bail yesterday after being accused of using Backpage in a deadly scheme to “rob escorts at gunpoint” — a chilling echo of Craigslist killer Philip Markoff’s crime spree in 2009 that ended with the murder of an exotic masseuse in a Hub hotel and his own suicide behind bars.

“We have a lot of concerns with these websites. We saw it with Craigslist and we see the same concerns with Backpage,” Healey told the Herald last night. “We’re going to do everything we can to protect the public.”

Jeune and Fisher are accused of targeting “escort” Sanisha Johnson, 34, of Bronx, N.Y., at the Extended Stay Hotel in Burlington just after midnight Thursday. They robbed and shot her in the chest, leaving her to die in Room 118, prosecutors said. Her screams sparked 
911 calls.

[pipoman]

1. Seems I've heard of more robberies of people just selling

General merchandise on CL than I've ever heard about escorts..sounds more like an excuse to sting and prosecute hookers who are using a much safer method than standing on the street.