Apr 17, 2009 6:05 am US/Eastern
Craigslist Killer Guns Down NYC Masseuse
Julissa Brisman, 26, Offered Massage Services On Popular Internet Site; Cops Turn To Surveillance Video For Help
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Julissa Brisman, 26, was found shot to death in a Boston hotel on April 14, 2009.
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The hunt for a cold blooded killer has police scouring postings on craigslist. A model and aspiring actress from Brooklyn was shot to death in a Boston hotel where she was offering massages.
Police want to question a man caught on several surveillance cameras.
Friends of 26-year-old Julissa Brisman said she was first and foremost a model/actress, but to make ends meet she performed massage, a skill she advertised on craigslist, a skill that took her to a hotel in Boston where she was shot to death Tuesday night.
"She was a bubbly bright person, very open, perhaps she was too open, too trusting," friend Mark Pines said. "If he was robbing her I know her, she would have given him the money."
Before investigators secure a motive they must find their man. On Thursday night they searched for a well dressed "person of interest." CBS 2 HD has obtained images from security cameras at the Marriott Copley where Brisman was murdered and from a nearby Westin hotel where another woman was tied up and robbed during another massage encounter.
"Both of these individuals were advertising on craigslist, and they were advertising masseuse services," a law enforcement official said.
"It is really risky. You have to know that," Manhattan resident Guillaume Labbe said.
Brisman studied acting at the HB Studio in the West Village in 2004 and 2005. She landed acting and modeling jobs soon after. A high point was a role in a public service spot about cell phone safety for pedestrians.
Her mother and sister travelled from New York to Boston as the search for the man in the photos intensifies.
"It's sad that some nut took her life like that and I just hope the police find out who did it," actor Onye Coleman said.
Brisman's friends and fellow acting students say this is a wake-up call -- that fast money jobs may be a few clicks away but can deliver disastrous results including death.
"I have to be honest, I put ads on craigslist as well and this gives me a second thought. I should be more careful."
Anyone with information is asked to contact the homicide unit at 617-343-4470 or the CrimeStoppers tip line at 1-800-494-TIPS or texting 'TIP' to CRIME (27463).
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