As Facebook Marketplace deals turn deadly, critics call for more user protection – New York Post

Facebook Marketplace deals are turning deadly, with two people murdered this year trying to sell items. On Jan. 27, Illinois teen Nedas Revuckas allegedly stabbed 30-year-old pregnant mom Eliza Morales 70 times before setting her house on fire. Revuckas, 19 — who cops say confessed to the crime — was dissatisfied with a red 1994 Ford Ranger pickup truck he purchased from Morales’ husband through Facebook Marketplace a week previously. Revuckas is awaiting trial and has yet to enter a plea. Eliza Morales was stabbed 70 times in January after a frustrated teen purchased a red 1994 Ford pickup truck from the pregnant Illinois mom. Illinois teen Nedas Revuckas allegedly stabbed pregnant mom Eliza Morales 70 times before setting her house on fire. Downers Grove Police A few days earlier, on Jan. 23, decorated Marine and pastor Michael Ryan Burke, 42, was gunned down in his Columbia, Missouri, home. He used his final breaths to text his mother and sister: “I am dying, I love you.” Four people who had been on a Marketplace phone-stealing spree in the area were arrested and charged with second-degree murder. One of them had responded to Burke’s ad listing his iPhone 15 for sale. Three
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