Jury Has Case in Ohio's Craigslist Killings Jurors must decide if the alleged triggerman charged with killing three men in Ohio by luring them with Craigslist job offers was a masterful manipulator or the target of investigators. The jury in the case against Richard Beasley, 53, was scheduled for its first full day of deliberations Tuesday. Jurors got the case late Monday and deliberated into the evening as the judge suggested. The jury will be sequestered in a hotel each night until reaching a verdict. If Beasley is convicted of aggravated murder, the same jury will return later to consider whether to recommend the death penalty. His 18-year-old co-defendant, Brogan Rafferty, was convicted and sentenced last year to life in prison without chance of parole. In closing arguments Monday, prosecutor Jonathan Baumoel repeatedly mentioned the three victims and a fourth jobseeker who survived an attack, and told jurors there was no reasonable doubt that Beasley plotted the killings. "They were desperate for a better life," Baumoel said. They wanted a second chance. Defendant Richard J. Beasley listens to the closing statements and jury instructions during his trial in Summit County Judge Lynne S. Callahan's court on Monday, March 11, 2013 in Akron, Ohio. The murder case against Beasley, the alleged triggerman charged with killing three men by luring them with Craigslist job offers went to the jury on Monday after the prosecution asked jurors to use common sense and return a guilty verdict. (AP Photo/Akron Beacon Journal, Paul Tople, Pool) Close Baumoel presented three possible theories for aggravated murder - planning the crimes or killings done with a kidnapping or a robbery involved. "This was clearly with prior calculation and design," a component of the death penalty aggravated murder charge, Baumoel said. He was the mastermind behind this plot. In the defense response, attorney James Burdon attacked the prosecution's identity theft and robbery motives. Beasley was using one victim's ID before the man was killed, Burdon said. "He didn't have to lure him to southern Ohio to kill him," Burdon said. Burdon said the victims had little to steal and suggested that such a circumstance undercut the prosecution's robbery motive. According to Burdon, Beasley was targeted by prosecutors because he posted the jobs offers for someone else. He called targeting Beasley a "hunch" by investigators. Beasley testified that he met with the surviving victim, Scott Davis, but said Davis was the one who pulled a gun in retaliation for Beasley's role as a police informant. Davis, who was the star witness at Rafferty's trial, also testified against Beasley.