Philip Markoff Alleged ‘Craigslist Killer’ found dead in prison cell.

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The Boston medical student Philip Markoff who preyed on Craiglist escorts killed himself in prison Sunday on the day after what would have been his first wedding anniversary.  He was found suffocated with a plastic bag over his head.  Markoff was arrested in April 2009 for the murder of Julissa Brisman, 26, a model and aspiring actress from the Upper West Side.

Markoff 24, was found dead in his Jail cell in Boston, where he was awaiting his murder trial.  A prison guard told the Daily News that he didn’t know how Markoff had managed to kill himself, but that his training in anatomy might help him beat anti-suicide measures.

“He’s one step beyond other inmates and can do things other inmates can’t, because he knows about the human body,” the guard told the News.

Brisman, who moonlighted as an erotic masseuse advertised her services on Craiglist and police said that Markoff had answered her ad.  She was shot dead when she fought Markoff’s attempts to tie her up and rob her in the plush Marriot Cople Place Hotel in downtown Boston.

When Markoff, was arrested, he was about to start medical school and marry his college sweetheart Megan McAllister.  They were due to wed on 14th August 2009.  McAllister initially defended her fiance, telling the media he “couldn’t hurt a fly” and was “a beautiful person inside and out.”

Within weeks, as evidence emerged that Markoff had panties and restraints hidden in his boxspring and a handgun hidden in a hollowed-out copy of the medical textbook “Gray’s Anatomy” under the bed, she changed her mind and canceled the wedding.

Markoff had been on a brief suicide watch just after his arrest last spring when he reportedly tried to hang himself with his shoe laces and slice his wrists with a sharpened spoon.  The prison guard told the News that Markoff had no friends in prison and kept to himself in his cellblock, which was restricted to murderers.

“He secluded himself. He (did) a lot of reading. The other guys are not like him. He’s educated; most of these guys come from the street,” the guard said.

Markoff was also charged with the armed robbery of another escort at another Boston Hotel, and a third assault of an escort at a Rhode Island Motel.  Police believe that he had other victims who were probably too afraid to come forward, some of them men or transsexuals.

Markoff was finally caught after Police trailed him through cyberspace: tracking his emails, pinpointing the location of his phone calls and watching security camera footage.

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