'Craigslist killer' case highlights the plight of America's jobless

Ron Sanson tells how he was one of dozens of people who responded to a Craigslist ad would have used the work to attract men to death

In his long hunt for work, Ron Sanson has rarely been so happy to be rejected for a job.

"I had no suspicion," he said. "He looked like a farmer. He had a baseball cap. A flannel shirt. ... So look scraggly beard began to find the bodies. If I went there, would have had a grave dug for me. "

Sanson, 58, answered an ad on craigslist jobs in October looking for a caretaker on a farm in Ohio. Position to pay only $ 300 a week, but it came with a trailer to live in freedom. Applications of desperate men against flooding across the country willing to work for low wages just to have a small income.

Except that there was no operation and unemployed.

Richard Beasley, a self-styled preacher of convictions for theft, is accused of directing the ad to attract men in a secluded forest and shoot them.

Beasley Brogan Rafferty and 16, is accused of killing four people, killing three of them, who came from as far away as Virginia and Florida and Ohio. Police suspect that there are more victims.

The alarm was raised by one of four in South Carolina, who was shot, but he escaped and hid in the woods for hours. When police arrived, he found a shallow grave already opened for him.

Sanson said after answering the ad, ready to do an interview at the center of Beasley. I was disappointed to learn that dozens of men went after work.

"When I saw the announcement of craigslist I thought this is perfect, on a farm with no one around. The money was more than what they pay for food, "he said." When I spoke with Richard Beasley said more than 100 people applied for the position and were in every sense. This shows why people are anywhere to death. "

police are not sure why these murders.

The victims were in their 40 years of age or older, an age that is often more difficult to get the job. Some were homeless, others had left a poorly paid job to another.

But there were men like Samson, too, that only a few years ago were considered a strong and prosperous middle class and could not imagine running $ 300 per week of work and living in a trailer.

Today

are among the ranks of the poor by the number of people living in poverty is growing almost twice as many times as rich interior U.S. cities and towns. For the first time since the boom of post-industrial war, the American dream is being reversed and the middle class is shrinking.

Sanson

spent three decades building his own construction company, earning $ 60 000 per year or more. The company went into decline with the mortgage crisis, which came into Ohio before most of the United States and outside the company three years ago.

Since then, Samson says he has applied for 50 or more jobs. He now lives a pension of $ 370 per month on the military base and $ 160 per month in food stamps to eat. You do not have health insurance.

"I had to sell many things. Antiques that if I had to get rid of family memories .. especially furniture. Corner cabinets, dressers, bookcases, "he said. "I have more things to sell."

not alone.

"I had many friends who worked in the steel mills for a long time and are out of jobs," he said.

Sanson lives in Stow, a village about 45 km south of the largest city in Ohio, Cleveland. Stow is full of pure two-storey houses and bungalows built during the years in the auto industry was booming engine of the local economy. Many residents were at the beginning of the first generation of cars and televisions. Now, in northeastern Ohio, the American Dream is in decline.

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suburb of Cleveland in the 90's were booming middle class neighborhoods now have a poverty rate higher than the average city household incomes have fallen to their lowest level in 25 years. More than half of all children in Cleveland live below the poverty line.

This is reflected in large parts of America. The latest census data show that almost one in two of 300 million U.S. citizens are now officially classified as low income or living in poverty. One in five families earning less than $ 15,000 (£ 9,600) per year.

• northern Ohio is one of the most affected, particularly Cleveland and its satellite cities, where 60% of the poor live in the suburbs. The number of people on food stamps on the outskirts of the city has almost quadrupled to 60,000.
power centers have emerged in the suburbs could never have imagined such a thing, that the height of the maple tree in a "pantry" to provide free distribution to the needy, he opened three years ago.

"Some people are embarrassed," said the manager pantry, Evelyn Knuckles. "And some people do not feel ashamed. They just want the food brand. It is in need, but still want the brands they use to eat. It is very aggravating at times. "

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