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Backpage child sex trafficking: Not just a man’s game

Published on April 18, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Backpage and Prostitution and Human Trafficking. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .
Roeder and Hathaway

Roeder and Hathaway

Women Charged with Trafficking Teen Girl:

33-year-old Elizabeth Roeder of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 41-year-old Shannon Hathaway of Stoughton, Wisconsin were both arrested in River Grove, Illinois for allegedly prostituting a 17-year-old girl on Backpage. They were caught by Cook County detectives who were working a prostitution sting. Cook County is one of the jurisdictions who have been taking an active role in fighting online sex trafficking since the days of craigslist.

While sex trafficking is a crime usually run by men it’s not uncommon for women to be traffickers and pimps as well. Don’t call them ‘madams’ because that makes them sound classy and there’s nothing classy about trafficking children for sex. Women traffic can be just as violent and vicious as the men if not more so in some cases.

And as usual Backpage continues to make money hand over fist from cretins like this.

Chicago area craigslist rapist caught, may have 20 victims

Published on March 26, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Predators. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .
Charles Oliver

Charles Oliver

Woodstock man held in Craigslist sex assaults:

Police trying to locate as many as 20 women in Craigslist rapes case:

Police checking for more victims in Craigslist rapes:

One of the things that craigslist has more than killers is rapists. I remember that some time ago I was asked to do a guest post for the Investigation Discovery website and they had asked me do to a post on the craigslist rapist. My reply was “Which one?” Yet people are still putting themselves out there as victims on the Sears catalog of sexual predators.

44-year-old Charles Oliver of Woodstock, Illinois has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting several women that he met through craigslist’s personal ads and ads for escorts. Wait, weren’t they supposed to be removed from craigslist? Huh. Anyway, police know of 5 victims but say there may be as many as 20.

In once case Oliver locked the woman in his basement, another has said that Oliver flat-out raped her. The attacks were said to have taken place from November of 2011 to early this year. Police identified three other victims in their investigation.

When police investigated Oliver’s home they said they not only found videos of Oliver having sex, some consensual some supposedly not, along with the identification and personal belongings of women that did not belong to the women that have already been identified as victims. They say there may be as many as 20 victims.

Oliver was arrested in January and released on bond which of course did not deter him at all. Oliver was re-arrested in February for allegedly trying to intimidate one of the victims by confronting the woman’s husband.

Oliver is being held on $3M bond.

Ladies, if you’re in the dating scene I implore you not to use craigslist as way to meet guys. There’s way too much of a risk that you’ll meet someone like Oliver. You may think that you can spot one of these predators from miles away but I would imagine some of his victims felt the same way. As far as the professional ladies go I urge you to get out of the life. Is the money really worth being possibly locked in someone’s basement and have God only knows what done to you. Please check in your local community to see if there are resources that will help you escape the life.

As far as craigslist itself goes this just goes to show one more time that they have no interest in monitoring their own site regardless of how many people are being made victims of horrible crimes. Only when enough people stop using craigslist will they eventually take notice. There more concerned with the green ink of their money than the red blood of their victims.

UPDATE 4/1/2013: More victims have either been discovered through investigation or have come forward.

The latest craigslist killing happened in Tinley Park, IL

Published on March 26, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Killers. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .
Christopher Dyson

Christopher Dyson

Markham man charged in Tinley Park shooting:

The latest name to add to the ever-expanding list of craigslist killers is 18-year-old Christopher Dyson. He’s accused of allegedly shooting 24-year-old Thomas Mastro to death after a craigslist deal gone wrong in Tinley Park, Illinois.

Police say that Mastro placed an ad on craigslist looking to unload his Playstation 3 and had agreed to trade it with Dyson for an iPhone. Mastro went to get the PS3 in the box from Dyson’s trunk when a struggle for the box ensued and Dyson shot Mastro in the chest. This was all done in broad daylight in front of a local convenience store. Dyson was caught after a 45 minute manhunt.

Again doing any kind of business on craigslist is like taking your life in your own hands. It doesn’t matter the location, the time of day or how many witnesses are around. Some people don’t care and will stop at nothing as long as it benefits themselves no matter how small the dollar amount may be.

Timothy Smith convicted in Illinois craigslist murder

Published on February 28, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Killers. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .
Timothy Smith

Timothy Smith

Smith found guilty of first-degree murder:

Today 28-year-old Timothy Smith of Woodstock, Illinois was convicted of first degree murder for the May 2011 shooting of 48-year-old Kurt Milliman.

At the time Smith was prostituting his pregnant wife on craigslist and Milliman went to their home to use her ‘services’. According to Smith’s wife Milliman was drunk and she asked him to leave. When Milliman tried to force the issue by allegedly slapping Smith’s wife Smith shot Milliman in the back with a .38. However instead of calling police Smith tried to make the crime scene look like a break in by breaking a window and rearranging various items in the home. Meanwhile Milliman was still alive and bleeding to death. Smith claims he did this because he was ashamed of what he and his wife were doing. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that he didn’t want to be arrested for pimping his pregnant wife.

Smith is facing 45 to 85 years while his wife was granted immunity from the murder charges for her testimony. He is scheduled to be sentenced in late April.

While justice has been served there are no good guys in this story, only bad guys. Smith was turning out his pregnant wife while Milliman was supposedly violent towards her when she refused his money. All during a time when craigslist had supposedly gotten rid of prostitution ads on their site. If only one of the parties involved actually acted like a responsible human being none of this would have happened.

Eric B. Wolf was looking for an ‘attentive babygirl’ on craigslist

Published on January 16, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Predators. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

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Police: Man, 48, expected to meet girl, 14, for sex:

Now that the bullets have stopped flying for now I can catch up on the usual spate of craigslist creepers.

Late last December Will County Sheriffs in Illinois arrested 48-year-old Eric B. Wolf of Matteson, Ill. on charges of child solicitation. Wolf allegedly placed an ad on craigslist seeking “a sweet attentive babygirl for some ongoing fun.” In craigslist-speak that means he was looking for an underage girl that he could repeatedly rape.

Wolf did receive a response from a 14-year-old girl and arranged to meet the girl at a fast food restaurant. Fast food places seem to be the go to meeting places for these scumbags. I may never look at my local golden arches the same way again. Anyway when Wolf arrived at the meeting instead of being met by a potential rape victim he was met by the Will County Sheriff’s Department and promptly arrested.

Police say that in his car they found condoms and a webcam. So not only was he looking to rape a child it seems like he was planning on either recording it or streaming it as well.

Still no legislator and no advocacy group is calling on craigslist to do anything about this. Ever since they closed down the erotic services section it seems like they’ve been given a free pass. I don’t mind being the lone man in the woods shouting to the wind because sometimes, especially in this case, the lone man is right.

Illinois craigslist creeper looking for ‘fathers willing to share their daughters’

Published on January 29, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Predators. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Brandon J. Bergthold

Cops: Man sought fathers on Craigslist ‘willing to share their daughters’:

Sheriffs in Will County, Illinois arrested 25-year-old Brandon J. Bergthold for allegedly seeking children for sex on craigslist. Investigators say that Bergthold posted an ad on craigslist looking for “fathers willing to share their daughters.” I would imagine that this would have been in the casual encounters section.

Luckily the person that responded to his ad was an undercover investigator with the Cook County Sheriff’s Child Exploitation Unit. If you’ll remember correctly the Cook County Sheriff’s Department is no fan of craigslist. Anyway the investigator set up a meeting with Bergthold posing as a father willing to give his 6-year-old daughter to Bergthold so he could have sex (child rape) with the girl. Investigators say that he pursued this meeting aggressively. He was also hoping to have sex with the imaginary girl’s imaginary 11-year-old cousin.

Bergthold allegedly told police he was also addicted to child porn so more charges may be coming.

As I’ve said before if one man is arrested for trying to get a parent to prostitute their child out to any pedophile then there are probably more people on craigslist who are getting away with it. But still craigslist refuses to monitor their site and still relies on ‘community policing’. When your community consists of pedophiles and predators don’t expect a lot of policing to occur.

UPDATE 6/19/2012: Bergthold was sentenced to only 10 years. Plenty of time for him, to reoffend when he gets out. He’ll just be a little behind on the pedos’ technological curve when he gets but like most predators it won’t take him long to learn.

Ill. MySpace gang rapists sentenced

Published on December 15, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in MySpace and Predators. 8 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

2 plead guilty in Stickney rape of girl, 14:

This past January 20-year-old Jonathan Leanos of Stickney, Illinois raped a 14-year-old girl that he met on MySpace. Not only that but he also recorded the rape on his cellphone. Still, he wasn’t done there.

He then had three friends, 23-year-old Vincente Hernandez, 19-year-old Majeed Khalifeh and 16-year-old Alex Picallo, allegedly rape the girl while again, it was recorded. To top it all off Leanos raped her once more.

Let’s dissect this for a moment. Rape is one of the worst crimes that can be perpetrated on a woman. Now imagine it happening to a 14-year-old girl, not once but repeatedly in one night. Then think about the fact that the rapes were recorded as if it were just another party video. You would think that with such a heinous crime the group would be thrown in jail with the proverbial throwing away of the key but you’d be wrong.

Khalifeh pleaded guilty in October and got six years in jail, ten years of probation and has to register as a sex offender. This past Friday Leanos and Picallo pleaded guilty. Picallo got six years in prison and Leanos got nine. Both of them also got 10 years probation and have to be added to the registry. As usual those sentences are a joke. They’ll be out in plenty of time and as I’ve shown many times before the sex offender registry is really no deterrent to offending again.

Hernandez’s case is still pending.

Is this justice? Hardly. They’ll come out with the knowledge that they’ll gain in prison with an even tougher street cred for having been inside. The victim will have to live with this all her life why shouldn’t these lowlife rapists have to do the same?

UPDATE 5/13/2012: Hernandez finally pleaded guilty and was sentenced to only five years in prison and 10 years on the registry. Another joke of a sentence.

We get letters: Branded as a sex offender? We can only hope

Published on October 7, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Facebook, Mail and Predators. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Joshua Britzman

I originally posted about Joshua Britzman here. That was 2 years ago. He’s some punk ass 23-year-old who was arrested for allegedly having sex (child rape again in my book) with a 15-year-old that he met on Facebook. In the pantheon of social networking sex offenders he was barely a blip on my radar. That was until I received the following e-mail…

KNOW THE FACTS BEFORE YOU JUDGE!!!!
FIRST, JOSHUA KNEW THE GIRL BEFORE,
SHE IS 15 NOT 12…BIG DIFFERENCE.
she wa not a virgin.
JOSHUA WAS NOT HER “FIRST” AND WAS NOT HER LAST SEXUAL ENCOUNTER! SHE CAME TO
HIS APARTMENT OF HER OWN FREE WILL AND
THERE ARE OTHER FACTS INVOLVED.
Had she said no, Josh would not have
pursued.
Was it a foolish choice, bad decision?
absolutly!
I do not condon premarital sex. However
we need to make our daughters responseable for their own actions!!! not just the boys. 15 is old enough to
be responseable for saying yes or no.
and she said yes.
She goes on her merry way having sex with whomeveer she pleases and Josh is
branded as a sex offendeer for the rest
of his life.

First off, as usual, your grammar is fucking atrocious. Most browsers come with spell check these days. How about using it for once so you don’t look so much like a fucking idiot. But even proper grammar couldn’t help that because you’re blaming a fucking VICTIM for a crime.

Know the fucking law assclown. A 15-year-old girl can not legally consent to sex in this country with a 23-year-old. Your buddy Britzman is supposed to be the ‘adult’ in this situation but instead of doing the right thing he allegedly thought with his dick instead of his brain. My guess is his dick is bigger than his brain and I bet they’re both pretty small. If he is/was guilty of these charges then he deserves everything he has coming to him in spades. We are all responsible for our own actions. When will you fucking assclowns learn this?

If it was up to me he would be literally branded as a sex offender across his fucking forehead.

Ill. man used Facebook and Skype to solicit teens

Published on September 3, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Facebook and Predators. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Joseph A. Bozen

Orland Park man charged with soliciting sex from minors:

27-year-old Joseph A. Bozen of Orland Park, Illinois has been arrested for allegedly soliciting two teenage girls for sex over Facebook and Skype.

For those parents who are still using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 98 with Bonzi Buddy, Skype is what’s known as a VOIP software. It allows people to basically make phone calls to other computers. If the computer is equipped with a webcam it allows the users to make video calls as well.

Bozen allegedly used both services to solicit sex from a 15 and a 16-year-old girl. Bozen met the New Lenox, IL girls online through mutual Facebook friends.

For once we should not be hearing the excuse that Bozen didn’t know their true ages…

“He was definitely sending messages of an inappropriate nature,” Detective Sgt Pete Nelson said, adding, “He was fully aware of their ages.”

I’m not saying that we won’t hear it but we shouldn’t.

Bozen was busted when one of the girls’ parents found the explicit messages. No face to face contact ever happened say police.

As far as Skype goes it’s a really useful program however much like webcams it should not be used by kids on unmonitored computers.

Ill. couple plead not guilty to craigslist murder charges

Published on June 26, 2011 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Killers. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Timothy and Kimberly Smith

Woodstock couple plead not guilty to charges:

Timothy and Kimberly Smith of Woodstock, Illinois have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them which led to the shooting death of 48-year-old Kurt Milliman.

If you’ll recall Mr. Milliman allegedly responded to a craigslist ad where Timothy Smith was advertising the prostitution services of his wife. Sometime during the night police say that Timothy Smith shot and killed Mr. Milliman and the couple allegedly concocted a burglary/self-defense explanation for the killing.

Timothy Smith is charged with first-degree murder, pandering, obstructing justice, and pimping. He’s looking at 45 to life. His wife has been charged with obstructing justice, disorderly conduct, and prostitution.

Smith the husband is said to have wept at his plea hearing. Aw, poor baby. You at least still have your life, Kurt Milliman does not.

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