Brogan Rafferty was a sixteen year old living in Ohio when he would murder three people with the help of his partner Richard Beasley
According to court documents Richard Beasley and Brogan Rafferty would place ads in Craigslist looking for people to help with manual labor around the farm
When the men would show up they would be killed: 56-year-old Ralph Geiger, 51-year-old David Pauley and 47-year-old Timothy Kern would be murdered over a four month period. A fourth man would be able to escape which would eventually lead police to Richard Beasley and Brogan Rafferty
Brogan Rafferty would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for twenty five years
Richard Beasley would be sentenced to death
Brogan Rafferty Current Information
| Number | A633123 |  |
| DOB | 12/24/1994 | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Race | White | |
| Admission Date | 11/13/2012 | |
| Institution | NorthEast Ohio Correctional Center | |
| Status | INCARCERATED |
Richard Beasley Current Information
Number A640970
DOB 06/15/1959
Gender Male
Race White
Admission Date 04/05/2013
Institution Ross Correctional Institution
Status INCARCERATED
Brogan Rafferty Case
A teenager accused of helping kill three men who responded to a fake job advert on the Craigslist website has been convicted of aggravated murder.
Brogan Rafferty, 17, helped Richard Beasley lure victims with bogus ads for a nonexistent rural Ohio cattle farm.
Mr Beasley has pleaded not guilty to the charges, including the attempted killing of a fourth man.
Rafferty faces up to life in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on 5 November.
He was tried as an adult but will not face the death penalty because he is a juvenile.
Prosecutors argued during the trial that Rafferty was a quick student of violence and a willing participant in the killings, while defence lawyers say he went along with Mr Beasley’s plan because he feared for his life.
The man who survived, 49-year-old Scott Davis, testified during the weeks-long trial, as the prosecution’s star witness. He identified Rafferty as Mr Beasley’s accomplice.
Mr Davis said he responded to a Craigslist ad to work as a farmhand, and met Rafferty and a man who called himself “Jack” for breakfast before driving to an isolated farm.
Prosecutors say that “Jack” was actually Mr Beasley, and that he urged Mr Davis into a wooded area to look for farm equipment.
Mr Davis told the court he heard a gun cock and turned around to find himself face-to-face with a handgun, but pushed it aside and was shot in the arm. He fled, found a house and called police.
The three men killed were Ralph Geiger, 56, David Pauley, 51 and Timothy Kern, 47. Officials say they were targeted because they were older, single, out-of-work men with backgrounds that made it unlikely their disappearances would be noticed quickly.
On Tuesday, Rafferty stood with his hands clasped behind his back and showed no emotion as the convictions were read.
The Ohio jury of seven women and five men took 20 hours to reach verdicts on 25 counts. Rafferty was acquitted of on a charge of identity theft.
Jury forewoman Dana Nash said it was a difficult decision because of Rafferty’s age, calling him “a child”, but that jurors were sceptical of some of the 17-year-old’s testimony, saying they felt he contradicted himself.
Craigslist killer accomplice Brogan Rafferty convicted – BBC News
