Craigslist Killer | 04/21/2009 8:55 am
Philip Markoff, Accused 'Craigslist Killer,' Is Medical Student Engaged to College Sweetheart Megan McAllister

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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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?
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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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?
Oh, you right about that!