Who wants a massage?  Well, just look on craigslist.  There are all kinds of services available, anytime, any place.

Who goes looking for massages on craigslist? Could be anyone.  Could be the murderer next door.  No doubt the vast majority of seekers and finders are reputable.  Agreeing to a time and place, in exchange for goods or services. Pretty elementary stuff.  Business 101. But we’ve all heard the craigslist urban legends.  The dark side, the underbelly of craigslist.

Ugh.  Just ask the gals around Boston.  The story of an attractive young medical student, with a fiancé to boot, who’s locked up at the moment, accused of murdering one of the girls who placed an ad on craigslist.  She was offering massage, he was interested.  And so a meeting was set, a time and a place.

I think about this woman preparing for her gig.  No doubt she’d done it before, maybe didn’t love it, but figured hey, it paid the bills.  Likely she didn’t fancy the idea of doing it forever and ever, but for now, it provided flexibility, and a little bit of extra cash.

So knock knock.  Med student shows up.  I’m sure there was a minute there where she was super relieved that the guy wasn’t some freaky pervert.  He was just a regular, fine young man. 

Or so she thought.  And my tortured Nancy Drew mind wonders what she did think, when she realized this guy who answered the ad wasn’t so regular, so ordinary, after all.
Or did she even have a chance to realize that?  Likely she did, which makes the idea of the ill fated meeting all the more frightening.  Really frightening. 

It seems so obvious how dangerous this kind of encounter could be.  But maybe not, if you’re a reputable therapist, maybe you’ve had experience with this kind of transaction being a double thumbs up.  In, out, cash in hand, see ya’ next time.  No fuss, no muss.

Except for this time.  See that’s the horror.  You never know.  You never can know.  How can an attractive young medical student with a fiancée be a predator?  A murderer?  Is is possible?  Is it real? 

Ask the detectives on the case, who thanks to over 150 leads, tracking numerous IP addresses whether or not it’s real.  They’ll tell you how very real it is.

Craigslist?  Buyer Beware…. Seller Beware……