Even those who claim there’s no such thing as bad publicity would probably make an exception for unwanted connections to accused murderers.
Medical student Philip Markoff, charged with robbing women who advertised on the Internet and killing one of them, has become known in the media as the “Craigslist killer.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that this is the third slaying linked to people who have met through the Web site.
Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster is quoted: “We do everything in our power to make use of the site as safe as possible, and to keep inappropriate activity of all sorts - especially criminal - from the site.”
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