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If every age has its iconic murder, as unfortunately appropriate that the murderers of craigslist in despair of their victims to work

murders Every era has its emblematic. Acts of violence have access to a wide range Zeitgeist blowing through a society in crisis

Jack the Ripper exposed to the dangers faced by slum dwellers Victorian London, and any social reformer. The massacre of pregnant actress Sharon Tate by followers of Charles Manson symbolized the dark side of the 1960s. The murder of Happy Valley in Kenya, he Josslyn aristocrat in 1941, exposed the hypocrisy of the decadent colonial elite in Britain. And the series of murders of beautiful sociopath Bundy, Ted of all Americans captured the nihilistic "Me" Decade of the 1970s.

Now it seems modern U.S. anxiety has found his own unique crime fierce and bloody. After all, at a time when millions of unemployed and where the lucky ones who have jobs are living in constant fear of losing the saddest contemporary symbol of evil that a murderer might attract their victims with a job advertisement?

The announcement of craigslist for a "position of caretaker of an estate" should be read as a vision of paradise for those who would eventually die because the answer. A simple and low-wage, working Drive Eden where the house was bigger than anything of a two-bedroom trailer in the woods - but a heaven-sent occasion, however, a cripple America by unemployment and a faltering economy.

"I just saw a patch of 688 acres of rolling farmland and feed a few cows, you have 300 per week," said the read request. He described a vision of pastoral ripe for hunt boar in the forests of southern Ohio and a stocked fishing pond. "The place is isolated and beautiful, to be a real game for the right person," he said.

No wonder more than 100 people responded. They were all people, no doubt, desperate for any work at all, to whom the promise of living alone in the forest of $ 300 a week was almost too good to be true: an offer he could not pass up.

But seriously, you think it would pack all your bags for a trailer to live in isolation from a few hundred dollars a week? The answer in America in 2011, is sadly simple: many people. Desperate people, unemployed, poor, with little to lose, single people, people with families struggling to support, people willing to ignore the warning signs and take a risk. Check the fine print of the latest unemployment figures, the unemployment rate has fallen - but because more than 300,000 people stopped looking for work and left the counter
in modern America, there is no shortage of desperate humanity. After all, it was a permanent job, and with him all the respect cultural, financial security and emotional satisfaction that the use is intended to bring to our society, but the Great Recession has ruthlessly uprooted. This is what the man in Virginia, David Pauley, 51, probably thought when he answered the ad. Were buried in the woods. Therefore, so do the others, so far unknown whose body ended up hiding nearby.