Philip Markoff grew up in Oneida County.
Former Boston University medical student Philip Markoff (center) stands with his attorney John Salsberg (right) June 22, 2009 during his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Markoff, a 2004 graduate of Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School, was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of one woman and the gunpoint robbery of another woman in downtown Boston hotels this spring. He was found dead in his Boston jail cell on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010.From the Boston Herald:
A top Hub official is calling for an independent probe into how alleged Craigslist killer Philip Markoff - Nashua Street Jail’s most infamous inmate - could commit a slow, gruesome suicide, denying his alleged victim’s family justice.
Sheriff Andrea Cabral “failed in her duty to provide care and custody to an inmate awaiting trial, and because of this failure, the Brisman family will never see justice served,” Boston City Councilor Stephen J. Murphy, chairman of the Committee on Public Safety, told the Herald.
Markoff, 24, had been awaiting trial for erotic masseuse Julissa Brisman’s execution in a Back Bay hotel last year when he was found suffocated by a clear plastic shopping bag from the jail’s canteen yesterday morning. The apple-pie handsome former medical student at Boston University had also stabbed himself with a pen, sources said.
» Read the full story: Sources: Suspected Craigslist killer used bag, pen in suicide [Boston Herald]
» Markoff's boy-next-door image shattered by accusations [The Boston Globe]
» Victim's mom 'beside herself' [Boston Herald]
» Suicide raises questions about safety of Mass. inmates [The Boston Globe]
» Autopsy planned for accused Craigslist killer after apparent suicide [CNN]