Steven M. Staff Photo by Matt West. From left, David Grimaldi, right, attorney for Derrell Fisher, 21, of Roxbury, and Robert Sinsheimer, attorney for Epshod Jeune, 24, of Burlington, in a Woburn court, where the two men, standing out of sight behind court officer, were ordered held without bail in connection of murder of woman who had been working as an escort, inside Extended Stay America in Burlington.
David Grimaldi, right, attorney for Derrell Fisher, 21, of Roxbury, and Robert Sinsheimer, attorney for Epshod Jeune, 24, of Burlington, enter a courtroom after speaking with the two men who were held without bail in connection of murder of woman who had been working as an escort, inside Extended Stay America in Burlington.
Staff Photo by Chitose Suzuki. Epshod Jeune, left, and Derrell Fisher are held on murder charges in a slaying at this Burlington motel. Attorney General Maura Healey is sounding the alarm on the online classified ad site Backpage after prosecutors say a female prostitute was murdered at a Burlington hotel by two suspects authorities fear may be serial predators.
They robbed and shot her in the chest, leaving her to die in Room , prosecutors said. Her screams sparked? The men had used Backpage to rob another escort at the Red Roof Inn in Woburn earlier that night, prosecutors said, and are suspected of committing other similar crimes.
The two holdups are just the latest in a recent series of incidents here and elsewhere linked to the online sex trade, among them:. Police said they found the alleged victim blindfolded and handcuffed to a bed in his house. Authorities said the bondage was consensual and the two had met over Craigslist;. Another man seeking sex was robbed last week by a woman who posed as a prostitute on Backpage, according to Arlington Police Chief Frederick Ryan; and.
