Craigslist killer dead..probable suicide

[Lady Cop]

from today's Herald:
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said the former Boston University medical student fashioned a “primitive scalpel” from a pen and sharp piece of metal and, with a would-be surgeon’s precision, “inflicted a series of small punctures and incisions on his body, including his neck, arms, wrists and ankles,” opening up both veins and the carotid artery in his neck.

Markoff also tied clear plastic bags around his head and feet that Conley said are “available to inmates at the jail.”

Such makeshift weapons also could be used for homicide, experts warned.

“There is a reason you never give an inmate a pen. They can make a sharpened instrument or weapon out of them,” said Dr. Ron Martinelli, a California-based forensic criminologist and police and correction practices legal expert. Noting that plastic bags can be twisted into ropes, he added: “You can kill yourself with even a magazine and a T-shirt.”

[Duchess]

They were talking about it on The Today Show this morning. By all accounts he appeared to be sleeping, had the blanket pulled up around his head and those bags tied in such a way as to capture his blood so that it wasn't seen pooling around him.

[Lady Cop]

i'm looking forward to this.

case photo gallery here:

http://www.bostonherald.com/galleries/in...=2504&p=22

Boston Herald
Massachusetts prosecutors say they will release files associated with the case of a man accused of killing a woman he met through Craigslist.

Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley plans to release documents, audio, video and still images connected with the prosecution of Philip Markoff this afternoon.

Markoff was charged with killing New York City masseuse Julissa Brisman at a Boston hotel in 2008.

Markoff, a former Boston University medical student, committed suicide in jail in August while he was awaiting trial in the killing.

A spokesman for Conley said he plans to make a presentation to reporters highlighting the significance of some of the evidence.

Brisman’s mother expressed frustration last month that Conley had not released the case file six months after Markoff’s death.

hollowed-out "Gray's Anatomy" where he hid his gun--->

and the shoes had blood on them.

[Lady Cop]

a few more photos here. victim's underwear. her advert on craigslist that led to her death. the zip-ties he used on her. his booking photo. this guy was going to escalate to serial killer, he had all the earmarks.