Mark Geiger said he'd grown worried in recent months after not hearing from his brother, then called

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The promise of a farm job used to lure victims in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme would have been the perfect fit for Ralph Geiger, a handyman who grew up with pets and was around animals his entire life, his brother said Wednesday.
Mark Geiger said he'd grown worried in recent months after not hearing from his brother, then called police after hearing his brother's cheap last minute travel to the caribbean name in media reports last week. He said FBI agents told him that his brother was probably one of three men killed in the Craigslist plot.
Mark Geiger said he doesn't believe a Craigslist ad offering the nonexistent job in rural southeastern Ohio had been posted when his brother cheap last minute travel to the caribbean was killed. He doesn't know how his brother might have found out about the promised job, speculating he might have seen it through some type of employment bureau.
Police are holding two suspects in the case: 52-year-old Richard Beasley, a Texas parolee living in Akron, who is jailed cheap last minute travel to the caribbean without bond on unrelated drug and prostitution charges. The Summit County prosecutor says she plans to charge Beasley with murder and attempted murder counts and that he could face the death penalty.
Police have linked the Oct. 23 death of David Pauley, 51, of Norfolk, Va., and the death of Timothy Kern, 48, of Massillon, whose body was found near an Akron shopping mall Nov. 25, to the Craigslist scheme. They also have linked the suspects to the Nov. 6 shooting of Scott Davis, a 48-year-old South Carolina man who escaped and first tipped off authorities to the scheme.
In a four-page handwritten letter to the Akron Beacon Journal , Beasley has said he has been miscast as a con man when he had helped feed, house and counsel scores of needy families, drunks, drug addicts, the mentally ill and crime suspects for years.
Ralph Geiger lived and worked in and around Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s, at times keeping chickens, goats and other animals, his brother said. He did antique restoration work and helped restore items after fires and floods. cheap last minute travel to the caribbean He returned to Akron, where he grew up, as their mother's health deteriorated cheap last minute travel to the caribbean in the 1990s.
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