Apr 22, 2009 7:38 pm US/Eastern
Alleged 'Craigslist Killer' Had Items From Victims
Prosecutors Describe In Detail What Happened To Julissa Brisman, Offer Theories On Suspect's Gambling
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Accused craigslist killer Philip Markoff in a Boston court on April 21, 2009.
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Julissa Brisman was killed at Marriott Copley in Boston on April 16, 2009, as seen here in this undated handout photo.
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Police released this image of the man believed to be connected to the Marriott murder and a robbery at the Westin last week. He may also be linked to an attack in Rhode Island.
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Warwick police released four surviellance photos of the man believed to be the Craigslist killer at the Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, RI April 16.
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Warwick police released four surviellance photos of the man believed to be the Craigslist killer at the Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, RI April 16.
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Warwick police released four surviellance photos of the man believed to be the Craigslist killer at the Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, RI April 16.
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There was new bombshell evidence revealed Wednesday against the accused craigslist killer. It came as family and friends gather to remember one of his alleged victims.
Even as people mourn Julissa Brisman in New York, investigators in New England are gathering more evidence in the case against Philip Markoff, her accused killer.
At the arraignment in Boston on Tuesday the Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley would not talk about "other items" found in Markoff's apartment -- besides a gun, duct tape and plastic ties. But now it appears police are telling Boston reporters that among those items were panties that may have been taken from craigslist victims.
And also in that courtroom looking at the man charged with killing his daughter was Julissa's father, Hector Brisman, a janitor with the New York City public schools. The district attorney for Boston met with Julissa's father before Markoff was in court.
"He is, as you would expect any father to be, extremely distraught over this. Ah, this terrible loss that he and his family have suffered," Conley said.
Investigators are trying to put together a timeline for Markoff; and it appears that woven among the three so-called "craigslist" incidents they know about so far is an apparent pattern of gambling.
Markoff's high school friends say as a teenager, he played poker often at the Turning Stone casino outside Syracuse, where his mother worked. One police theory is that the craigslist robberies were to pay off gambling debts or support a gambling habit. Police are looking, for example, into a trip to Foxwoods casino on April 2.
Markoff's fiancée, Megan McAllister, has said it was one of their favorite places.
Eight days after that trip, a craigslist connection, Trisha Leffler, was tied up and robbed at the Westin hotel in Boston.
On April 12, two days after Leffler was robbed, investigators believe Markoff made another trip to Foxwoods. On that day, investigators said, the craigslist encounter with Julissa Brisman took place and ended in murder. On April 16, allegedly, Markoff made another trip to Foxwoods, where he supposedly won $5,300. The next day came the alleged third craigslist robbery.
And when Markoff was picked up Monday, he and McAllister were in a car, apparently, on their way to Foxwoods.
Hector Brisman was inside the courtroom when Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Hickman went into the graphic details of his daughter's murder, allegedly at the hands of Markoff. The father had to hear about the blow to his daughter's head, the three gunshots and then a killer walking away, calm, cool and collected.
"One of the injuries, the bullet that went through Ms. Brisman's heart, according to the medical examiner, would have caused her death immediately," Hickman said. "We know from video surveillance that the individual who killed Ms. Brisman walked calmly out of Copley hotel."
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