Craigslist founder to attend slain woman's memorial
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(AP) - The founder of Craigslist will attend a benefit in Minnesota for a woman who was slain while answering an ad for a baby sitter on the popular Internet site.
The benefit concert at Grace Church in Eden Prairie on May 3 will raise money for a memorial scholarship in Katherine Ann Olson's name at St. Olaf College.
Organizers say Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will fly in and make a statement at the concert. They say he's been very supportive of the Olson family.
Twenty-year-old Michael John Anderson was sentenced this month to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing the 24-year-old Olson in October 2007. Prosecutors said he ran a phony ad on the classified-ad Web site to lure a woman to his home in Savage so he could experience what it felt like to kill.
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