Craigslist Killer Suicide

[sadie1263]

BOSTON -- A former medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through the online advertising site Craigslist committed suicide in the Boston jail where he was awaiting trial, authorities said Sunday.

Philip Markoff, 24, was found unresponsive in his cell Sunday morning in the Nashua Street Jail, the Suffolk County district attorney's office said in an e-mailed statement, and he was pronounced dead at about 10:15 a.m. ET.

"Markoff was alone in his cell, and all evidence collected thus far indicates that he took his own life," the statement said.


www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/15/report-craigslist-killer-commits-suicide-jail-cell/

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Well.....this spares the expense of the trial.......and his family doesn't have to hear what he did in gory detail..........is that why they commit suicide or is it the fear of spending their life of jail?

[Greylek]

Aug 15, 2010 22:43:25 GMT sadie1263 said:

BOSTON -- A former medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through the online advertising site Craigslist committed suicide in the Boston jail where he was awaiting trial, authorities said Sunday.

Philip Markoff, 24, was found unresponsive in his cell Sunday morning in the Nashua Street Jail, the Suffolk County district attorney's office said in an e-mailed statement, and he was pronounced dead at about 10:15 a.m. ET.

"Markoff was alone in his cell, and all evidence collected thus far indicates that he took his own life," the statement said.


www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/15/report-craigslist-killer-commits-suicide-jail-cell/

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Well.....this spares the expense of the trial.......and his family doesn't have to hear what he did in gory detail..........is that why they commit suicide or is it the fear of spending their life of jail?

I doubt it was to spare his family. If someone wanted to spare their family they wouldn't have done such an action in the first place..at least in my opinion.

I think fear of spending life in jail would be the reason. It also shows a guilty conscious.

[Big Lin]

I think you're absolutely right, Greylek.

[sadie1263]

I saw part of a news story on him......I just vaguely remember it.....but wasn't he advertising on gay sex sites also?

[Novak]

Aug 16, 2010 0:11:19 GMT sadie1263 said:

I saw part of a news story on him......I just vaguely remember it.....but wasn't he advertising on gay sex sites also?

He placed an ad on Craigslist looking for males or transsexuals.

Apparently, he took his life the day after he was supposed to get married.

[sadie1263]

So what exactly was he??? A confused homosexual that was struggling with his identity and decided to kill? Bisexual.....and a killer?

Have they said what set all this off?

[Novak]

Aug 16, 2010 3:26:27 GMT sadie1263 said:

So what exactly was he??? A confused homosexual that was struggling with his identity and decided to kill? Bisexual.....and a killer?

Have they said what set all this off?

From what I read, most of his victims were female. He committed three armed robberies in which the victims closely resembled each other and they were all exotic dancers. Four days before Julissa had been murdered, and two days after she had been he committed 2 other armed robberies, but both victims of the armed robbery were found alive.

I think Julissa was a robbery gone wrong. She may have fought back, or didn't comply. Usually when a criminal escalates his MO to murder, they don't stop, but his third victim was found alive. I could be mistaken.

[sadie1263]

Found the following:

The day after Markoff’s arrest, a report surfaced that he had traded e-mails with a transvestite advertising on Craigslist.

"It appeared that he was interested in homosexual sadomasochism, and he was interested in being the submissive partner," according to Steve Huff, a crime blogger and a contributor to the True Crime Report.

Following up on the e-mail address Markoff reportedly used - "sexaddict5385"- Huff said he made a startling discovery. "I received a tip that, if you added another '8' to that address, there were secondary profiles that nobody knew about yet."

One of the profiles Huff found for "sexaddict53885," believed to be Markoff, was on Alt.com - a personals Web site for the very adventurous. It lists among his interests: chains, collars, leashes and experimentation with transvestites.

"Everybody answers questions on these profiles," according to Huff. "One of them was, 'How often do you think of these things?' And he answered, 'All the time.'"

And it’s not an isolated entry. It looks like Markoff was all over the Internet. Huff said Markoff also had profiles on gayclublist.com, passion.com, extremerestraints.com.

When asked how certain he is that the profiles are Markoff's, Huff replied, "All the evidence points to him. The person posting had the same birth date as Markoff. Of course, he had the similar handles, the sexaddict handle. Also, the date that the profile had been published was about two years ago. It's hard to fake that."

There’s also this: Boston police confirmed a torso photo featured on Alt.com was found on Markoff’s laptop. The secret profiles and his alleged solicitation of a transvestite suggest to psychologist Casey Jordan that Markoff’s public persona was at war with his deeper desires.

"He really did have this other double life," she said. "Now that, In and of itself, doesn't cause people to rob or to kill. But what it does is very often cause, what we call in criminology, a fractured identity. That conflict can actually result in violence."

It was from a 48 hours episode on him........

so what is the theory........he just couldn't deal with the two sides of himself and cracked?

Was it the fact of his upcoming wedding that was putting more pressure on him.......he was going to have to deal with giving up the other side of himself???