🎧 "He placed an ad. Not for furniture. Not for a job. For victims."
Between 2007 and 2009, Philip Markoff, a 23-year-old Boston University medical student with a loving fiancée and a future in medicine, became one of America's most unlikely serial predators. Using Craigslist's "erotic services" section, he lured at least four women to upscale hotels, where he robbed them at gunpoint — and murdered two.
On April 14, 2009, Markoff secured the room at the Copley Marriott. Julissa Brisman, a 25-year-old aspiring model, arrived expecting a massage—and found death. Markoff bound her with plastic zip ties and shot her three times at close range . One week later, he attacked a stripper in Warwick, Rhode Island, brandishing a black semi-automatic . When she screamed, he fled . A casino-dealer's Lucky Sevens key chain left at the Warwick scene was traced back to Markoff's fiancée, whose last name—"M"—matched an initial left at a previous crime scene in an elevator . Police released surveillance images; Markoff's fiancée recognized his physique and the "husky build" immediately .  
Facing 10 counts including first-degree murder, Markoff took his own life in his jail cell on August 15, 2010, leaving a suicide note that began: "I am sorry for everything I have done to cause the deaths and pain of others and the pain that I have cause to my family and my fiancée."  
This is the Craigslist Killer — where the promise of convenience became a trap and the mask of Boston's golden boy finally slipped.


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