Nancy Huddleston of the Savage Pacer reports:

SAVAGE -- A hearing in the Craigslist murder case was continued until Nov. 19 so that representatives of the popular online advertising business and of the e-mail service America Online (AOL) can be brought in to testify.

The testimony of the two Internet companies is needed because the case hinges on if murder suspect Michael John Anderson used those services to lure Katherine Ann Olson to his home in October of last year for a fake babysitting job. Olson was found slain on Oct. 26, 2007 in the trunk of her car in Rudy Kraemer Park Preserve, just over the Savage/Burnsville border after she'd gone to Anderson's parents' home at 12649 Kipling Avenue for the job.

Defense Attorney Alan Margolis is challenging the legal propriety of the administrative subpoenas to obtain information the in case against Anderson, 19, of Savage. And the issue of if those investigative tools were used properly or improperly is the reason the hearing will be continued. Scott County Attorney Ron Hocevar said in order to answer Margolis' inquiries, representatives of both Craigslist and AOL would need to be brought in to testify.

For a full story on the hearing, see this weekend's edition of the Savage Pacer. Accessible for a week through this link: www.savagepacer.com/Print_Edition.