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good evening and thanks for joining us. craigslist has grown from a collection of small san francisco job postings to a global marketplace the destination for people looking for carburetors to cuisinarts. a boom for backyard commerce and at worse an online pawnshop for thieves look to unload stolen goods. neal karlinsky follows a group of police specialists dedicated to busting craigslist crimes. >> reporter: you are seeing two armed men holding up a pawnshop in broad daylight taking jewelry out of the case. and here three burglars caught on tape inside a home taking everything in sight. in the last few weeks a rash of burglaries across the country. but it's just the beginning. there are nearly a thousand robberies a day nationwide

according to the most recent figures and it's more than just bank robberies it's everything and it's big business for the bad guys. but fencing all this stolen stuff just got a little more tricky. inside this cramped office at the portland police department the shopping spree never ends. if you're thinking right about now this is not your average burglary squad you're right. these detectives spend their time jamming mc hammer and surfing the webs sending e-mails from phony accounts. >> leaving a couple spelling errors in there makes it authentic. >> reporter: part of one of the strangest shopping sprees. >> give you $300. >> reporter: their responding to ads on craigslist for everything from computers to guitars and motorcycles. >> you thought you found your

stolen ninja. >> it's on craigslist right now. >> reporter: you name it they're looking for it. but they're only shopping for one thing, bad guys unloading stolen merchandise. the range of stolen items they recovered is staggering. >> gpss, jewelry, droids cell phones. >> reporter: they have a meeting with a top of the line mountain bike they suspect is stolen. the seller arrives with the bike. but first they make sure it's really the stolen bike. >> roger. we're coming. >> reporter: it is. and detectives try to decipher how this guy who goes by the name alif i ended up with it. >> where did they get it? >> i don't know. >> reporter: but they can't prove that he stole it. so they confiscate the bike. >> got another bike off the

streets. >> reporter: and they cut him loose. relieved he's not going to jail alfy says that craigslist is the best thing to happen to him. >> it's the american dream. have your own business at home. >> they're letting you off. none of them think you didn't know you were dealing in a stolen bike. >> when i bought it and checked the numbers and find out how much it was worth i knew it wasn't a cheap give away. >> reporter: craigslist is a booming marketplace where regular people make honest deals to sell everyday things but it's also the pawnshop for stolen goods. >> our pawnshops in portland are well regulated. we don't have a lot of property going through pawnshops. >> reporter: their unit grew out of an overwhelming demand. >> what do you need? >> reporter: a ferociously

driven set of parents looking for the thief of a stole stroller. >> a baby stroller thief right here. this guy steals baby strollers. >> reporter: they found out their neighbors were hit too and their strollers were all turning up on craigslist. >> too late buddy. >> how many strollers? >> from people e-mailing me 20 but it's more than that. >> reporter: but their success rate is high. more than 100 deals in six months. driving to their next case there's no mistaking it. a stolen trailer that was in a family for 35 years turned up for sale and was a perfect match when detectives arrived. >> within a matter of 10 seconds i could see the things from the front of the trailer to the back which says that's his trailer. >> reporter: the victim was there to make a positive

identification. >> it has the twist that you mentioned and the holes and same lights. >> reporter: he had been checking craigslist every week for five months to get to this point. >> i figured that somebody was going to flip it and try to make a few hundred bucks. the best place is craigslist. >> you spotted it this morning and before sun down. >> yeah. >> you got it back. >> it was on craigslist two or three days. >> reporter: the man who is trying to sell it is a victim too. he didn't know it was stolen when he bought it. >> you are a good sport. here it is you are out 300 bucks. >> i've had worse. >> really? >> people are always stealing from other people. that's why it was chained to my fence. >> what do you say when people say this is small scale stuff. >> you have to go after the criminals but you have to go after where they buy and sell

the property. if they don't have an outlet to sell it it may discourage crime. >> reporter: when the music stops the shopping spree isn't about jail sometimes it's about sending a victim home with his precious belongings. and letting the bad guys know that when it comes to fencing their goods -- seller beware. >> thanks guys. >> reporter: i'm kneel carlinski for "nightline" in portland, oregon. next life after edward and bella. twilight creator stephenie meyer and what's next for this romance revolutionary. great first gig! let's go! party!

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vampires and werewolves used to be scary, lead in halloween tales not heart throbs making girls pine for interspecies romance. but stephenie meyer has changed all that. capturing hearts and minds around the world. meyer's stories are already worth billions and as juju chang discovers she has more surprises in store. >> reporter: it's a lover's triangle but as brilliantly

preposterous as it is profitable. >> i don't know that i can control myself. >> reporter: stephenie meyer's fantasies have sold more than 100 million books and grossed more than $3 billion worldwide. >> i don't have the strength to stay away from you any more. >> then don't. >> reporter: at its core a teenaged girl in love with a vampire and the werewolf also in love with her. >> it is something that can be got over easily and work out how you would deal with that and it turned into more than that with the story. but i liked that idea of internal conflict. >> reporter: this time around meyer has another high staked interspecies lovers romance. >> we have been invaded by

another species who erase our minds to take our bodies. >> max irons and jake abel play two human men in love with one teened girl and the spirit who has taken over her body, the host. >> she is dead but she comes back. anything i knew and loved about her is gone at which point this guy -- >> elbows in on your girl. >> well you know when she is brought to the cave and he hits her to the ground. >> jared, jared, i'm alive. >> a man stands up for a woman alien or not. >> it's a confusing emotional moment. >> i understand and not faulting you. >> but here's the kicker ian starts to fall in love with this sort of other species. >> i like you wanda. >> i like you too ian. >> this is an interspecies romance. >> it is. i tried to wry write a story

about human beings and got bored. i love regular fiction but when i'm writing the science fiction and fantasy holds my attention better. >> stop. you are not going there. what about jared? >> he kissed her i kiss her. it's a cave community. >> it sounds more racy than it actually is. >> i just want to try one thing. >> reporter: meyer's stories bridge the gap between teen and adult fiction reminding us what it was like to fight the urges brought on by raging teenaged hormones. >> there is a great deal of sexual tension in your stories and most of it is unconsummated and tame. >> i think there is something magical about taking your time with physical attraction. if you make it so that every time someone brushes someone's hand. remember when you were 14 and

that was a big deal. you know we skip over that a lot. >> reporter: how do you channel the 16-year-old girl in all of us? >> i don't think you ever lose the 16-year-old girl. apparently it's not so different that i'm not still a little in touch with that girl. >> reporter: meyer is an unlikely publishing phenom. the twilight installment was her first attempt at writing after dream about a man glittering in a meadow. >> it was a dream, a vivid one and it worked out in odd ways. >> reporter: we caught up with meyer in chicago at the bookstore where her first signing took place. >> i have two tattoos on my back. >> reporter: despite her celebrity status her most important role is mom to her three sons. >> mom's mostly at home being a

nerd. you're not cool to your kids. when they were little and my middle one was trying to ask which friend does your mom write? because mom is the epitome of normal. they don't realize it's different for other people. >> have they read your books or see the movie? >> they saw the first one. i wouldn't let them see the other ones. >> reporter: it's too violent or sensual? >> i think it's too sensual. >> reporter: sensuality and taming a burning desire is a cornerstone of meyer's writing. "the host" explores the notion that finding your soulmate goes beyond your physical body. >> i'm a woman. and i don't look like heidi klum and it's hard to forget that and realize that's not the important thing. you are bombarded by so much. >> reporter: it's stunning that you, stephenie meyer mega star

is insecure. >> isn't everyone. the more famous a person is it seems like the more difficult it feels to fit into that role. i don't know. i've always been like that. >> reporter: there's pressure for meyer to expand the twilight series but says she is done with vampires for the time being and she is working on a sequel to "the host." >> you are letting your gut or dreams lead you. but after "the host" what comes next? >> i have real fantasy like with a map in the front piece fantasy and assassin stories and ghost stories. and you know there's so many things i'd love to be able to do. >> reporter: and legions of fans bratlessly breathlessly await. next up, inches from death. a great white shark threatens to

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we all know honeymoons are supposed to be thrilling and surprising but not in the way it happened to a young couple cage diving with sharks off the coast of south africa. their first full day as man and wife will be forever associated with terror. >> reporter: cage diving is supposed to be a safe way to see great whites like you've never

seen them before just inches from your face. this video from the coast of mexico. there is a cage between you and thousands of pounds of killing machine. this just shot by a tourist off the coast of south africa is never supposed to happen. the shark is into the cage. the diver a honeymooner somehow survived without even a scratch. >> his instinct was to go down and avoid where the shark had access to. so very quick thinking on his part. >> reporter: cage diving is popular with thrill seekers and people like me trying to confront their greatest fear. i dived a couple years ago in the same waters where our lucky newlywed made his narrow's

escape. chum and blood are put in the water. a tuna draws the sharks in with an attack speed of 50 feet per second. a collision course with the diver hanging in a cage off the side of the boat. is it amazing. >> holy [ bleep ] his fin was that far away. you could see its tail. if i was brave -- >> reporter: jim has been diving with sharks for years in the caribbean and atlantic. he says cage diving is great pr. it might make humans appreciate and fight to save this vulnerable species. >> everyone wants to see the biggest predators on the planet and cage diving allows anyone to see it. >> reporter: shark attacks have increased since the sharks have been conditioned to look to

humans for food. >> we trained sharks to follow boats. have we changed their behavior? absolutely not. they don't eat people. in the state of new york 1600 people are attacked and bitten every year by people but we still interact with people. >> reporter: maybe this video of this near miss is good pr too. proof that sharks really don't like to eat humans. his jaws are right in there. and the honeymooner, not a scratch. >> what a honeymoon. time for tonight's closing arguments. the sprout will hear two cases involving gay marriage. one a california case banning same-sex marriage. what do you think the court should do? weigh in on the "nightline" facebook page or tweet

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