both LasVegasDave and Flutters.
I wonder if Joel and Ethan Coen are looking at this story.
I feel sad when people looking to better their lives meet that kind of grisly end. When people go to what they think is a legitimate job interview, they don’t expect to be robbed and murdered. Its just shocking that vulnerable people are taken advantage of by criminals.
Very sad.
ADDITIONAL INFO
< snip > Timothy Kern was promised $300 a week, a trailer and a truck for the job near Caldwell, his father, Jack Kern, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. He said his son was excited about the job because of the chance of bettering his life.
In a Facebook post on Nov. 10, Tim Kern wrote: “Just got one of the strangest job offers. A good offer but strange. The job is to watch over 680 acres south of cambridge. Odd jobs and such but mainly just secure it. Trailer, utilities, salary. Drawbacks? No cell phone service, kids are up here, and i have to move this sunday.”
Jack Kern, of Massillon, said his son was rarely out of touch and often texted and called family members.
“We’re holding hope, but pretty grim, I think,” he said.
One man who replied to the bogus ad was found dead in Noble County last week. Another said he escaped after being shot on Nov. 6.
Before a judge issued a gag order, the Noble County sheriff said it was unclear how long the ad had been online or whether there were other victims.
Timothy Kern, 47, divorced and the father of three sons, worked most recently cleaning gas station driveways, his father said.
He said his son apparently answered the Craigslist ad Oct. 30 and interviewed for the job with a man in an Akron restaurant Nov. 9. His son left his car with a friend in Akron Nov. 13 and was driven to what he was told was the job site.
Timothy Kern told family members the job involved running a 600-acre farm in Noble County.
The man who escaped Nov. 6 gave police a similar account of a farm job, saying he was going to build fences. Neighbors near the property where the man escaped said there is no such farm.
Instead, the area is a former strip mine owned by a coal company that rents the land to hunters.
Timothy Kern said he was told there would be no cellphone or Internet service where he was going but he could call when driven to nearby Cambridge, his father said.
Timothy Kern was a big baseball fan who liked spending time with his sons, his father said. < /snip >
the first question you have to ask yourself before answering an ad like this is... why can't they find somebody LOCALLY to fill this position???I guess I’m the only one that remembers Rolling Acres Mall from the 70s and early 80s. It was a glorious mall.
Now it’s closed and a good place to dump a body. It’s astonishing.