<p>Another Scott Peterson, this is scary, I feel so sorry for the girlfried who is now defending him to the press.</p>
<p>It was Foxwoods, not Mohegan Sun, which was listed as a possible honeymoon destination. </p>
<p>When he was arrested, he had $1,000 in cash on him and was headed to a casino, according to the Daily News.</p>
<p>Hmmm…first, Susan Boyle, and now Phillip Marcoff. I hope we’re all learning something here.</p>
<p>jonri–I too feel very sorry for his fiance. and you’re correct we may not know enough yet to assume he’s a psychopath, but I don’t see how he’s just a guy with a gambling problem who “chose” young women who would have a lot of cash. </p>
<p>A guy with a gambling problem would have a number of alternatives, ie. running away, asking his family for $, getting a job to earn $ to repay his gambling debt. To choose to steal from women to deal with his gambling problem seems more than odd to me. and I thought I read he was ready to assault the second woman in R.I. but her husband returned to the hotel room. Not so sure the motive was pure and simple $.</p>
<p>I feel sorry for his family and the fiance and her family. They are going to be attacked and examined by the media and the public until they collapse. Many of us here would be thrilled to have a son or daughter in med school and they probably were also. On the outside it all looked great. To be so suddenly thrown into a firestorm of media attention is very difficult to deal with. I wish them all the best. I saw a news article earlier where his grandfather (a lawyer in Baltimore, I believe) said he had never ever been in trouble. They are all in shock and it’s a terrible thing for the families.</p>
<p>This sad story reminds me of the former Lehigh student who robbed a bank several years ago to pay his gambling debts. The young man was president of his class, second cello in the Lehigh University orchestra, chaplain’s office assistant, frat member, and son of a Baptist minister. Still, this young man didn’t take anyone’s life.</p>
<p>[FOXNews.com</a> - Ex-Lehigh Class President Pleads Guilty to Robbing Bank to Pay Gambling Debt - Crime | Murder | Illegal Drugs | Missing Kids | Illegal Aliens](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203157,00.html]FOXNews.com”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203157,00.html)</p>
<p>Jonri could well be right that the craigslist killer shot his victim after he panicked when the young woman fought back. However, the hotel video surveillance camera shots seem to belie that notion. The guy was texting as he walked out of the hotel looking positively cool, calm, and collected. He certainly didn’t look like someone who was upset because he had just killed a young woman with a gunshot wound to the heart.</p>
<p>I find it very interesting that someone bright enough to get into med school left such a strong trail of evidence. Days before he was caught law enforcement commentators on the news networks were saying he would be picked up quickly because of the internet, cell phone and security camera data he left behind. I wonder if part of him was hoping to be stopped.</p>
<p>Actually, according to some media, he was evidently smart enough to think that perhaps he was above the law. Plenty of criminals come to mind that have been convicted that are very smart-and think that they would never be caught, thus leaving a trail of evidence. I think it is entirely possible for him to be smart enough to be in med school and left evidence behind. These very criminals convince themselves that they are truly innocent as well–even though hard evidence proves their guilt.</p>
<p>when these type of criminals are asked what they thought would happen if they continued committing crimes they respond, I thought I wouldn’t be caught.</p>
<p>I do feel sad for his girlfriend and her family. What a nightmare for them. </p>
<p>I had an experience that made me realize that criminals don’t have to be “monsters” or people who are easily identified. I learned that a person I considered a friend had stolen nearly a half-million dollars from a non-profit organization where she was employed. I was absolutely shocked and didn’t believe it when someone first told me. I probably said the same things that Markoff’s friends were saying–she seemed like a nice person–no warning signs that anything was off, I can’t believe she’s do something like this, etc. etc.</p>
<p>The guy must be a nut job. </p>
<p>I have two thoughts. I hope the fiance realizes quickly that he is/may be guilty, and extracts herself from the inevitable continuing media circus. </p>
<p>My second hope is that the media continues, as they have so far, to not put blame on the victim. We all know she was not there to give him a “massage” and so do the authorities and the press. I just hope they don’t besmudge her, however I’m sure if this does come to trial, she (the victim) will be the one on trial.</p>
<p>The girlfriend told the Boston Herald just hours before her fiance was arraigned on murder, kidnapping, robbery, and possession of a firearm charges, “I will stand by Philip as I know he is innocent. I love him now and always will.”</p>
<p>[Megan</a> McAllister Says Fiance Philip Markoff Not Craigslist Killer - Associated Content](<a href=“http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1670226/megan_mcallister_says_fiance_philip.html?cat=8]Megan”>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1670226/megan_mcallister_says_fiance_philip.html?cat=8)</p>
<p>Boston authorities say they traced the Internet Service Provider of the person using the computer to make an appointment with a 26-year-old masseuse, and it led them to the home of Philip Markoff. She was later killed, shot three times, one of the bullets passing through her heart. Using video surveillance footage from the three hotels where the suspect met the women, police made a general identification and, along with the gun, ammunition, restraints, and duct tape they found in his home, they arrested Philip Markoff for suspicion of murder.</p>
<p>shock, she’s in shock. very sad that she doesn’t have any privacy to deal with such a horrific discovery about someone she loved, and thought she knew.</p>
<p>and I agree with Bromfield–we seem to expect a monster to look like one…but sadly that is not usually the case. scarier really…</p>
<p>Markoff is also suspected in the attempted robbery Thursday in Warwick, R.I., of a stripper who had posted an ad on Craigslist. She was held at gunpoint before her husband entered the room and her attacker fled.</p>
<p>[The</a> Associated Press: Police: Med student targeted women on Craigslist](<a href=“http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iNLkHgI5AoYgiTx1TgxfLoTZGT9wD97N49G00]The”>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iNLkHgI5AoYgiTx1TgxfLoTZGT9wD97N49G00)</p>
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<p>Mohegan Sun was listed as a possible honeymoon destination on their wedding website. Foxwoods, as someone mentioned above, was were he was headed with his girlfriend yesterday in the car on I-95. Police pulled him over and asked him to come back to Boston to talk to authorities.</p>
<p>Please everyone be careful with craiglist. I was just at our local library and an elderly lady had the librarian helping her look at rentals in NJ on craiglist. When I mentioned that she should warn the woman not to send any money ahead, etc. the librarian told me her son in Boston was looking at a craiglist rental when the police came in and arrested the “landlord”. Apparently he had been posting for roommates, getting people to move in with him and then stealing their identities.
There are lots of respectable people on craigslist but you have to be careful.</p>
<p>It’s hard to understand the connection between a gambling problem and this other thing – contacting women on craigslist and assaulting them or killing them. If you have a gambling addiction, there are more efficient ways to come up with money, especially if you’re criminally inclined. </p>
<p>I once knew a student at Harvard who was also handsome and outwardly upstanding, but once he had a few drinks, he became a monster. I always thought that was the real person. Kind of a Jekyll and Hyde thing. It wasn’t the alcohol that turned him so much as it lowered his inhibitions so he couldn’t hide behind that polite mask.</p>
<p>I don’t know that there would have been better crimes that yielded as much with so little risk of getting caught. If he had not killed the girl it probably would have gone on and on. This is a smart man’s crime, he knew these were vulnerable women who would not go to the police and would have lots of cash.</p>
<p>I think there is the overlay of wanting to abuse women, but really, a well thought out crime.</p>
<p>I think wanting to abuse/harm women was clearly there. something about the gun, ammunition, duct tape and plastic ties, make it hard to imagine he was only after money. And unless I missed something, as far as I read, it yielded about $800. not very much imo when dealing with gambling debt.
also, after brutally killing a woman, he sought another in R.I. was his primary concern at that point still his gambling debt?? </p>
<p>I wonder if he had a room at Foxwoods, where he was headed with his girlfriend…what were his plans there? she resembled the poor woman he killed.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see whether info is revealed indicating he had sex with the women he assaulted and killed.</p>
<p>The m/o also indicates a familiarity with prostitutes.</p>
<p>And so it goes…
"Philip Markoff, the accused murderer now known as the “Craigslist Killer,” appeared to be collecting women’s panties, which investigators believe were “souvenirs” from his alleged victims, two law enforcement sources told ABC News.</p>
<p>The panties, found during a search of Markoff’s house, are one of the reasons investigators believe there could be more victims who have not yet come forward, the sources said.
[Alleged</a> ‘Craigslist Killer’ Collecting Women’s Panties - ABC News](<a href=“Victims' Panties Found in Craigslist Suspect's Home - ABC News”>Victims' Panties Found in Craigslist Suspect's Home - ABC News)</p>