JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Attorney General is currently conducting an investigation into Craigslist --the NBC Action News Investigators confirmed that Monday night.
AG Chris Koster has also asked for a meeting with representatives from Craigslist in the next two weeks. Koster is part of a group of Attorneys General nationally who has requested the meeting with Craigslist.
Last Thursday, the NBC Action News Investigators exposed how some people posting ads on the erotic section of Craigslist are offering sex for sale in their homes.
Read Investigator Keith King's report or click on the media player to the right to watch it.
The hidden camera investigation traced some ads to quiet, even upscale neighborhoods across the metro. Many of the ads listed prices. Some of the women who met with an undercover producer suggested sex would be involved. When the producer told two different women outside their homes he did not have condoms, both women told the producer they did.
Racy Craigslist ads have received attention in recent days following the arrest of the so called Craigslist Killer. Philip Markoff is charged with murdering Julissa Brisman of New York City this month at a Boston hotel after meeting on Craigslist. Markoff is also accused in a robbery at a nearby hotel of another masseuse police say he met through Craigslist.
He has pleaded not guilty. Court papers say the medical student accused of killing the 25-year old masseuse owes more than $130,000 in student loans and cannot afford an attorney.
The document obtained Monday from Boston Municipal Court says Markoff also does not get money from his parents. They live in upstate New York.
The document says the Boston University student has been unemployed long enough to be eligible for an appointed attorney paid through public funds.
