A Michigan man was convicted on Friday of killing four female escorts he met through Backpage.com in 2011, the Detroit Free Press reported.
James C. Brown, 25, was found guilty of 10 charges including first-degree murder, disinterment and mutilation of a dead body, and arson in Circuit Court. He faces life in prison during sentencing, set for April 15.
According to the Detroit Free Press, a relative of one of the women was taken out of the court room after telling Brown to hang himself.
He met his victims -- Vernithea McCrary, Natasha Curtis, Demesha Hunt, and Renisha Landers -- through a classified advertising website.
Brown allegedly killed the women in two separate incidents at his mother's house in Sterling Heights, then loaded the bodies into his car and dumped them off in his former Detroit neighborhood. According to prosecutors, one of the pairs of bodies was set on fire.
Though Wayne County medical examiners declared all deaths as homicides, a medical examiner for the defense testified on Wednesday that he would have ruled the manners of their death indeterminate.
Prosecutors said blood, DNA evidence, and cell phone records proved Brown was responsible. During questioning, Brown told police he smoked marijuana with the them, had sex with some of the women, and then passed out. When he woke up, they were dead, he claimed.
However, he admitted to putting the bodies in his car and pouring gasoline on two of the bodies to light them on fire.
