No.132 Woman Gets 40 Years for Killing Man During Craaigslist Car Sale

June 17, 2021 
Richmond, TX, NV
Victim: Altaf Hussain Malik

 Altaf Hussain Malik went to a Sam's Club parking lot to buy a car advertised on Craigslist by  Delana Nguyen and Terrell Funches. Instead of a sale, the pair stabbed Malik 60 times. Nguyen has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Funches will go on trial in July.


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No. 131 North Carolina Man Killed During Craigslist Sale of Camaro

 No.131

November 29, 2020 
Las Vegas, NV
Victim: Triston Stavee

 Tamika Shatavia Ford and Mark Anthony Nelson were arrested after killing Stavee and seriously injuring his grandfather, George Stump, Jr. Stavee and Stump met the couple with $4000 to buy the car. Instead of a sale, they were beaten and shot.


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No. 130 Couple used Craigslist ad to steal car and kill victim

 No.130

March 30, 2020 
Las Vegas, NV
Victim: Hector Menendez-Hernandez

Tonya Dillard and Jacob Berkovitz were arrested and charged with 4 felony counts: murder with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery, after carrying out their plan using sex to lure a victim, kill him, and steal his car. 


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No. 129 Defrocked priest met suspected killer on Craigslist

No.129
April 4, 2019 
Las Vegas, NV
Victim: John Capparelli

Derrick DeCosta was arrested and charged with murder and robbery, each with a deadly weapon. DeCosta responded to Caparrelli's post on Craigslist seeking young men to wrestle. Capparelli was defrocked in New Jersey after he was, "credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors."

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No. 127/128 Two killed in gun sale advertised on Craigslist

No.127/128
April 18, 2018 
Norman, OK
Victims: Alize Ramon Smith and Jarron Keonte Moreland

Bretty Boettler was charged with first-degree murder and Kevin Boettler and Johnny Barker were arrested as accessories  in the murders of Smith and Moreland.  The victims met the trio in a food store parking lot for a gun sale arranged on Craigslist. 

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No. 126 Man killed for posing as a woman for sex in Craigslist ad

No.126
March 7, 2018 
Orange County, KY
Victim: Francesco “Joey” Bonomolo

 Adam Anthony Ingala-Whiting is accused of stabbing Bonomolo after discovering Bonomolo was a man.  Whiting went to  Bonomolo's apartment after responding to a Craigslist ad for a man to join a woman and her boyfriend for a threesome.

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No. 125 Man charged in fulfilling requested hit advertised on Craigslist

No.125
November 7, 2016
Hardin County, KY

Victim: Kimberly Mayberger

Paul Ellefritz, of Radcliff, KKentucky was sentenced to death for the stabbing murder of his roommate, Kimberly Mayberger 48. Ellefritz met Mayberger through an ad on Craigslist.

No. 124 Craigslist ad for a hit-man ends in first degree murder charge

No.124
December 29,2017
Adams County, CO
Victim: Natalie Bollinger

Joseph Lopez, of Northglenn Co,,  has been charged with first degree murder. Lopez claimed he was hired by Natalie Bollinger when he answered her ad on Craigslist titled “I want to put a hit on myself.” Lopez states that after many text messages an agreement was reached, and he picked her up and shot her in the head.

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No. 122/123 Two men killed in marijuana sale arranged on Craigslist

No.122/123
December 11, 2017
Corunna, Michigan
Victims: Joseph Michael Carson and Anthony Lee Hammond

Otis Smith Jr. of Grand Rapids has been sentenced to life in prison, without parole, for being the triggerman in the killings outside a Walmart in Caledonia Township. Authorities say the murders stemmed from a deal to sell marijuana that was arranged online via Craigslist.

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No. 121 Sale at Davie, FL CVS Ends with One Man Dead

No.121
November 1, 2017
Davie, Florida
Victim: Andre Derek Smith

Smith met Matthew J Barry at a CVS parking lot to sell an iPhone. After the sale, Smith had repeated requests. Barry felt threatened, entered the CVS, and was followed by Smith and Smith's friend. After asking several clerks to call 911, Barry pushed Smith and then shot and mortally wounded him. No one has been arrested, and the investigation is continuing.

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No. 120 Former TSU Officer Killed at Meeting to Sell Car

No.120
September 30, 2017
Nashville, Tennessee
Victim: Jonathan Outlaw

A former TSU officer was murdered when he met with Ricardo Lamont Murray Jr., at a Robertson county gas station, to sell his car. Murray and 2 accomplices are accused of shooting and killing Jonathan Outlaw after stealing his car. 

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No. 119 Craigslist scammer charged in fatal hit and run

No.119
September 30, 2017
Morrow, Georgia
Victim: Not named

A Morrow, Ga., man was dragged and run over in a Home Depot parking lot after  meeting to buy a laptop offered on Craigslist. According Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill, Murray Blackmon was arrested and is facing multiple charges.

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No. 118 Twin Falls Man Killed in Test Drive Gone Bad

No.118
July 25, 2015
Twin Falls, Idaho
Victim: Kent Storrer

A Twin Falls man was killed after giving a test drive for a car offered on Craigslist. According to the Times-Union, in August 2017, Jerry Kimball was sentenced to 45 years in prison for killing Kent Storrer.

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No. 117:Atlanta man killed in truck sale

No. 117
May 1, 2017
Atlanta, Georgia
Victim: Vicente Cruz

An Atlanta man disappeared after telling a friend he was meeting someone he met through Craigslist to sell his truck. His truck was found the next day with blood inside.

Atlanta Police said David Rios was arrested in San Antonio, August 31, and charged with the murder of Vicente Cruz and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

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No. 116: Cathedral staff member suffocated by man he met on Craigslist
No. 116
July, 2017
Dallas, Texas  
Victim: Robert Lee Covington

A Cathedral of Hope staff member was suffocated with duct tape by a man he met on Craigslist, Dallas police say.
Robert Lee Covington, 54, was found dead in his bed around 6:30 p.m. Friday at his locked condominium in the 3000 block of Mahanna Springs Drive, near Cedar Springs Road and the Dallas North Tollway. 
Police arrested 22-year-old Yevin Rushing of Cedar Hill on a murder charge in Covington's death. who returned to the crime scene in a U-Haul, Dallas police say. 
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No. 115: Grad who earned college football scholarship slain in Craigslist deal gone bad

No. 115
June, 2017
North Miami Beach
Victim: Brian Brown

A  recent high school graduate who earned a scholarship to play college football in California was shot and killed during an apparent online transaction gone bad.

Brian Brown, 19, was shot June 14 at Northeast 177th Street and Ninth Avenue. 

Relatives believe Brown was shot during a Craigslist transaction after he advertised a PlayStation console and video games for sale and went to meet the potential buyer.

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No. 114: Three men charged in killing of man in Austin, Texas, during online drug transaction

No. 114
June, 2017
Austin, Texas
Victim: Cutberto Moran-Ayala

Three Chicago area men were charged in the June 8 shooting death of a man trying to sell marijuana on Craigslist, said police in Austin, Texas.

Savon Galloway, 22, Christopher Hamilton, 19, Akeem Bradford, 22, were charged with capital murder in the death of 26-year-old Cutberto Moran-Ayala, police said.

A fourth man, Keon Walton, 19, was arrested on an unrelated charge of assault with injury/family violence.

According to police, a friend drove Moran-Ayala to 4509 E. St. Elmo Road on the night of June 8 after Moran-Ayala had posted a Craigslist ad to sell pot. 

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No. 113: 2 people shot, 1 killed after Craigslist cellphone sale turns into robbery gone wrong

No. 113: 2 people shot, 1 killed after Craigslist cellphone sale turns into robbery gone wrong


No. 113
May, 2017
Harris County, Texas
Victims: Unidentified

Two people were shot and one was killed May 24 after they tried to rob two people during a Craigslist cellphone sale in Harris County, Texas.

Harris County deputies said two buyers met with two sellers to buy a cellphone around 9:30 p.m. along Highway 6 near Clay Road. The men were talking inside a vehicle when two people were shot. One person later was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Deputies believe the men who were shot were trying to rob the sellers and the sellers were defending themselves

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No. 112: Man charged with killing man who stole motorcycle after Craigslist deal

No. 112

May, 2017

Greenville County, S.C.

Victim: Steven Russell Ridenour

A Lyman man is charged with running over and killing another man who stile his motorcycle after a Craigslist transaction, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office.

Riddle NoNowell Harrison Riddle told authorities that a man took his motorcycle for a test drive after respondoing to a Craigslist ad and never returned. Later, Riddle called deputies again and said he saw a man riding his stolen motorcycle and was following him.

Riddle told deputies that he followed the motorcycle to a gas station, where he collided with the motorcycle with his car as the motorcyclist tried to get away. The motorcyclist, Steven Russell Ridenour, 36, of Greer, died at the scene.

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No. 111:  Three held in murder of Kansas man lured by Craigslist

No. 111
April, 2017
Kansas City, Mo.
Victim: Michael Luckey

Three people are charged in the stabbing death of a Kansas man who was lured to Kansas City by a Craigslist ad.

The body of Michael Luckey, 28, of Osawatomie, Kan., was found April 5 near an abandoned home in south Kansas City.

Tayelor Fitzpatrick, 20, of Quenemo, Kan., and Micah Dozier and Larry Wren III, boith 18 from Kansas City, Mo., face first-degree murder and and three other charges.

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