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Detroit-area man convicted of killing four women from escort site

Loud cheers and sobs broke the calm of the courtroom Friday as a Sterling Heights area man was convicted of killing four women in his basement and stuffing their bodies in car trunks after he met them through online escort ads.

Police said James Brown killed the women in pairs, just days apart, at his home in December 2011 while his mother was upstairs. The bodies were left miles away in a Detroit neighborhood. Two were burned beyond recognition when a car was set on fire.

Brown, 25, was convicted of first-degree murder, arson and disinterment of a body after a three-week trial in Macomb County court. He faces life in prison with no chance for parole when he returns April 15.

“I wish they had the electrocutin’ chair. I want a life for a life. He needs to die,” said Chikita Madison, the mother of one victim and the aunt of another.

Denise Higgins, the mother of another victim, said: “Why God has put us through this, I don’t understand.”

The jury deliberated less than four hours over two days after Thursday’s closing arguments. Judge James Biernat Jr. told spectators to keep a lid on their emotions, but the warning didn’t stop some family members and friends from loudly expressing delight as the verdicts were read.

“Yes!” one man yelled after the first of 10 guilty verdicts was announced by the jury foreman.

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  • For as long as prostitution remains illegal and sex workers can't risk cooperating with law enforcement this kind of predation will continue, as it did in the Green River case and so many like it before and since. Often the sex worker community has more useful, up-to-date information on these monsters than the cops, but they can't pass on what they know without incriminating themselves over how they came to know.

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