Craigslist Attack

Craiglist is one of the most popular sites visited daily across the country when searching for a job, gigs, auditions and so on. It usually know to be very legit and successful source for many people. I for one can honestly say that Craigslist has somewhat helped me when I looked for auditions, and throught it I got the opportunity to be in a female pop/R&B group back in 2007. So i have benefited from it and have always recommended it to friends and family. However, on April 16, aspiring model and actress Julissa Brisman had posted an exotic ad on Craigslist, and through the ad she encounted Boston University medical student Phillip Markoff, her killer. (image found here)

Phillip Markoff, is a brillant young man, who was engaged as of May 2008 to a beautiful woman and set to marry this August on a romantic sunset scenery in a New Jersey beach. Nevertheless, it seems that Markoff was connected to a numerous crimes against women, such as assault, robbery, and murder. Sometime last week, a woman was duct taped around the feet and robbed. Julissa Brisman was a women found dead at Marriot Copely Hotel, bashed in the head and shot three times. Markoff was caught on surviellance camera linked to the meeting with Brisman. When investigators search Markoff's apartment, they come to find duct tape and a murder weapon which associates Markoff to both crimes.

However, family memebers are insisting that the police has the wrong guy. His fiance says "Phillip wouldn'y hurt a fly; he is a great person inside and out". The police finds Markoff, as a man who takes advantage of women by robbing them and pysically hurting them. The women that Markoff encountered, were those who believed Markoff was a client they would make great money off of, by performing exotically. Unfortuanltey, for Julissa Brismen, this was an awful end. It suspected that Brisman put up quite a fight and Markoff got really upset and killed her out of anger.

My question is, why is a "happily engaged" man, in MEDICAL school, planning a marriage, with a bright and wealthy future, need to contact women on Craigslist for pleasure? It doesn't make any sense!! However, the investigation is intense and everything will add up!

As of now, I am going to be more careful on any site I seek auditons in, because this "bogus" act happens all the time. Think twice before seeking anything online, and if so...go the extra mile to make sure it's legit!!! (image found here)