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Craigslist Killer | 04/21/2009 8:55 am

Philip Markoff, Accused 'Craigslist Killer,' Is Medical Student Engaged to College Sweetheart Megan McAllister

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
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A 23-year-old Boston University medical student, Philip Markoff, believed to be the "Craigslist Killer," will be arraigned today.

Police claim that Markoff killed Julissa Brisman last Tuesday inside a Boston hotel during an alleged robbery. Markoff, labeled by the media as a "nice, clean-cut guy," was engaged to be married August 14, 2009, to his beautiful "all-American" fiancé, whom he met at undergraduate school. As more details of Markoff’s life become public, people are further jarred by the alleged dark side of this young man.

Markoff and his fiancé, Megan McAllister, have a wedding website, which features quizzes about their relationship, information about their honeymoon, where they plan to wed and also how they met. The website reads:

We met while going to college at University at Albany together. Megan was a senior and Phil was a sophomore. Our apartment buildings were right next door and we didn’t even know it until we met one day at the hospital. We both started volunteering at the hospital on September 19, 2005. We volunteered at the Emergency Room together and spent about 2 months pushing stretchers down hallways and bringing blood and urine samples to pathology together before our first date on November 11, 2005!!

According to reports, Markoff was from upstate New York but now resides in Quincy, near Boston, and expected to graduate from BU medical school by 2011. Boston University has confirmed his suspension.

On Monday, Markoff was officially charged with the murder of Brisman. Brisman, a 26-year-old New York masseuse who reportedly advertised her services on craigslist.org, was shot dead at an upscale Boston hotel. The Daily News reports that Markoff will also be charged with kidnapping and robbery in an attack four days earlier in another luxury Boston hotel. The victim was an exotic dancer who also advertised online.

Police suspect that there are more victims out there and hope they come forward.

 

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SlinkyBinx

That guy reminds me of Ted Bundy in the educated, totally normal looking but is really a serial killer kind of way.  His fiancee must be horrified and devastated! I know she said he was innocent, but later it came out that the police did find articles belonging to the victims in his apartment.  Doesn’t look good for him!!

On another note…they had a website about their relationship/wedding?? I wonder if anyone read it but the bride? 

By SlinkyBinx on 04/22/2009 8:05 pm
Bonnie Oliver
Slinky Binx -  Yes, I agree.  The resemblance to the stealth with which Ted Bundy searched for and later "fooled" his victims is frightening.  Very scary.
By Bonnie Oliver on 04/23/2009 3:01 pm
RuthM1
I am thinking of his parents, and the parents of the women who have died. 
By RuthM1 on 04/23/2009 8:18 am
RantnRaven
Not sure why fiance is getting dragged through the mud.  Even posting her name on the posting’s title/heading?  Wow (wowow)!
By RantnRaven on 04/23/2009 10:47 am
RachelSrebro
Well, she exposed herself by defending him in the media and has opened herself up to media attention and scrutiny as a result. Poor woman though. That has got to be the worst thing to go through, discovering your significant other is both a rapist and a murderer.
By RachelSrebro on 04/23/2009 4:17 pm
WashingtonCube

Slinky: There were two wedding blogs. One was created on The Wedding Channel in their "Knot" section to make up wedding registries, and "yes" the last I heard over 1,000 people left snide comments before they finally shut it down.  Ditto the registries at Pottery Barn and Bloomingdales.  Boston Globe reports today (Thursday,) that they had him under observation before arrest, and that they had found "trophies," (underwear was mentioned) in his apartment as well as the gun used in the attacks.  The fiancee had the misfortune to use the expression "wouldn’t hurt a fly" in her email to ABC, that being a quote from the movie "Psycho" used in Norman Bates’ demented mind.

While they say his motive was to steal to cover gambling debts, gut instinct tells me there was more involved in terms of domination and sadism and psychopathological behaviors: a budding baby serial killer.  The police have reported finding those type of items as well, in his apartment.

So much of this behavior is masked by the desire for seeming normality.  I am sure the fiancee knew nothing, which should be disturbing to all in terms of just what any individual can hide from another.

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By WashingtonCube on 04/23/2009 4:35 pm
AAmedee

So much of this behavior is masked by the desire for seeming normality.  I am sure the fiancee knew nothing, which should be disturbing to all in terms of just what any individual can hide from another.

Only a Psychopath has this ability!

By AAmedee on 04/26/2009 3:55 pm
PamelaMunro
Well re the financee- much better BEFORE the wedding for her than AFTER….& for the departed - why isn’t their trade legalized & supervised?
By PamelaMunro on 04/23/2009 4:46 pm
SaraHauston
Yeah…the woman probably doesn’t feel bad enough.  Lets tear her down even more. I mean, really. This person has lost everything that she thought was real in a matter of days… how is she supposed to act? Unless she’s totally unattached to the people around her that she loves and cares for deeply, she’s most likely in shock.  Now that’s a rational response, that is fair!
By SaraHauston on 04/25/2009 11:36 am
AAmedee
Oh yeah! people should not put her down. She is definately in shock as you said! I can,t imagine being with someone who is capable of that sort of evil. People should really layoff of her and keep her out of that mess. She will not forget! I feel for her.
By AAmedee on 04/26/2009 3:52 pm
Cestlavie
I think the fiancee made her comment to ABC too early on. In other words before she had time to actually sober up from the shock of the news. A person is more inclined initially to believe their loved ones.
I’m sure she is now reconciling (in her mind) the person with whom she was betrothed and expecting to make a life, whether she is capable of good judgment, why she may have been too forgiving of some of his actions, and why, oh why, has life played this cruel joke on her?
By Cestlavie on 04/25/2009 12:52 pm
MelanieWaldrop
HMMM…a psychopathic doctor is discovered BEFORE his graduation from medical school. After almost 25 years of working in the medical field, I can truly say this is a RARE event! Thank God he has been apprehended before more people died. While I feel bad for the fiance, I agree it is better that this all came out prior to the nuptuals. She would do well to take a deep breath, collect herself, thank God that she was never assaulted, and slowly back away from Markoff and the spotlight his crimes have directed upon him. Her protestations of his innocence remind me of Bundy’s girlfriend who couldn’t put two-and-two together when she saw a news report stating the police were looking for a murderer who "was a good-looking white male in his late twenties to early thirties, who drives a yellow vw beetle, and goes by the name of ‘Ted’". Evil cannot be ‘profiled’; it crosses all racial, religious, and socio-economic boundaries!
By MelanieWaldrop on 04/26/2009 11:29 am
AAmedee
Evil cannot be ‘profiled’; it crosses all racial, religious, and socio-economic boundaries!

Oh, you right about that!

By AAmedee on 04/26/2009 3:48 pm
AAmedee
There are many psychopathys out there we cannot really identify. They live normal lives like the rest of us. Thank God his madness did not spread to his girlfriend. He must have something against hookers! Could you believe this guy was studying to become a DOCTOR! Hello! Oh gees, I wonder how many of those are in medical profession or; poloicing for that matter. These are serious profession that do not need these people around other poeple who are helpless. My Goodness!!!
By AAmedee on 04/26/2009 3:46 pm