Beyond the Headlines: Catching the Craigslist Killer Page #7

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who is just trying to live his life.

So, if you could leave us alone,

we would appreciate it.

We expect to marry in August

and share a wonderful

and meaningful life together.

Thank you.

Our boy sure picked the right girl.

i have known Phil Markoff

since sophomore year.

i can't even put into words

the disbelief i'm feeling right now.

He was a great guy. i mean, he was not

someone who would ever even own a gun.

As Markoff is without resources,

it's the taxpayers of Massachusetts

who'll be footing the bill for his defense.

Doing the honors will be well-known

public defender, Robert Grossman.

A public defender? That's insane!

His parents aren't even paying for a lawyer?

Dad, do you know somebody?

We have to help him.

Although Markoff

is being kept away from the media,

his attorney continues

to publicly profess his client's...

We got him. He's got a public defender.

Is that right?

pregnant.

Trying to dodge statutory rape,

he and his buddy kill her with a knife

and a brick, and toss her in the gutter.

Cops have fingerprints, DNA,

confessions from both.

The buddy gets 20 years.

Ken Braniff gets Grossman as a lawyer,

goes free.

He's walking the streets of Boston today.

That's not true. Is that true?

Robert Grossman can make an alibi

out of two sticks and a ball of twine.

Then we need to make a preemptive strike

on Markoff's alibis.

-Was that the door?

-I don't know.

No reporters on the property.

I'm gonna call the police.

They are the police.

-How are you, Megan?

-Fine.

-Good to see you again.

-Detective Bennett, Boston P.D.

She was lucky.

She got out with only two busted ribs.

He hit her so hard in the face,

she's still having trouble seeing.

You guys have the wrong guy, okay?

Philip isn't capable of killing anybody.

-Are you sure?

-Everybody knows

that the Boston Police Department

is the worst in the country.

This isn't about the Boston P.D.

We're trying to figure out

who murdered an innocent young woman.

We have a positive lD from a woman

he beat up and robbed in Rhode lsland.

I believe in Philip, Lieutenant.

Did you know your boyfriend

posted on a sexual fetish website

under the username "Sex Addict 53885"?

Took it right off his hard drive.

You guys could've put that on there.

Digital forensics can prove

that Philip made these postings

Iong before he killed

Julissa Brisman with a nine millimeter.

Her skull fragments were found

embedded in the wall in the hotel room.

She died choking on her own blood.

Sex Addict 53885 was into, and I quote,

"Submission and humiliation."

-All right, I'd like you to stop this now...

-No, no, no.

-No, I'd like you to...

-Also on his list

was "friendship and experimentation

with transvestites and transsexuals."

I said that's enough!

That's not Philip.

He's got a description of himself here.

"Born February 12th, 1986.

"6'4", blond, athletic. Eight inches, cut."

That's enough! You guys are out of here.

Does that physical description match

your absolute knowledge ofyour fianc?

-Detective, stop this now.

-Get out of here.

-ls that your perfect fianc?

-Don't put that...

Get them out of here!

-You've done enough!

-You stop this now.

-Megan!

-You want to bully people?

Get out of my house. Leave our home now.

You sure you want to do this to Megan?

I thought you loved her.

I didn't do it.

You can spare everybody a lot of pain.

You want her to see you like this?

How ugly you are?

I didn't do it.

It's going to be a circus, Phil.

There's going to be pictures.

The media, they're going to turn you

into a monster.

You understand?

Phil, talk to me, all right?

I mean, I don't get it. You had everything.

A beautiful girl who loved you,

a bright future.

Ifyou'd played your cards right,

years from now,

you'd be a rich doctor having dinner parties

on the Vineyard with your wife and kids.

Right?

You'd be living the dream.

Instead of rotting in here.

Help me out, Phil.

I need it to make sense for me.

Why would you do this?

Why would you hurt those people?

Why would you throw it all away?

We've been talking about Philip Markoff

and allegations about other killers

leading double lives,

and frequently, the women who love them,

or at least who always seem surprised

-when the cops come calling...

-That is not going to make you feel better.

-lt won't?

-No.

I tried going over it in my head, and...

You know, what didn't I see? He was...

He was a med student. He worked late.

He was on his computer late at night.

How is that different

from any other guy at B.U.?

It's not.

How was I supposed to make that leap?

Megs, he fooled everybody, okay?

He seemed like the perfect guy.

Maybe I just wanted him to be perfect so bad

that I only saw what I wanted to see.

I loved him so much.

It's okay.

He made me feel

like no one ever made me feel.

Come here. I'm sorry.

Number four.

Megan.

Did you get my suit back from the tailor?

He was going to fix

the button thing in the cuff.

Philip, stop.

The wedding's only

a couple ofweeks away now.

Stop it!

I came here today because...

I need you to look me in my eyes

and tell me the truth.

Can you do that, Philip?

Please?

I love you. I always will.

Please, just tell me.

Please?

Maybe...

Maybe

the person who did this, maybe

they didn't feel like they deserved

all that they had.

Maybe they didn't feel like they deserved

someone as amazing as you.

You're amazing.

I love you.

Maybe

they felt like all they deserved

was to be punished.

I saw a picture of the gun.

And the underwear

that you put under the mattress.

Our mattress.

How many girls were there?

Sixteen? Did you...

Were you safe? Do I need to get tested?

I mean, getting tested

is a smart policy for anybody.

Please don't do that.

It said on your site that

you were into bondage and cross-dressing.

Did you do that stuff?

Megan, sweetheart, maybe you can't

believe everything you see on the lnternet.

This whole time.

You've been lying to me this whole time?

You've been looking in my eyes

and lying to me?

I mean, what did I do?

What did I do to deserve this? What did...

What did I do?

-I'm done here!

-No, no, no. Megan!

Baby, baby, baby!

Baby! Baby, baby, please come back! Please!

I'm scared! I'm scared to death in here.

Please don't.

Please. Please don't...

Please.

I'm never going to see you again.

I love you, Pocket.

We'll begin with these new details

in the death of Philip Markoff,

the accused Craigslist Killer.

NBC's Jeff Rossen is in Boston.

Jeff, good morning to you.

Hi, Meredith, good morning to you.

This morning, we're getting our first look

inside Markoff's cell.

And just to paint the picture for you here,

police say he had photos of his ex-fiance

spread out all over, it appears.

According to investigators,

this is the last thing he was looking at

before he committed suicide.

After he stabbed himself,

he wrote messages to her

on the wall in blood, in a spot

where he could see it, but she couldn't.

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