CARLOS PEREZ-OLIVO: WIFE KILLER GETS 25 YEARS, MOTIVE IS MONEY

Carlos Perez-Olivo listens as he is sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife.
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Carlos Perez-Olivo listens as he is sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife.
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Perez-Olivo Gets 25 Years For Wife's Murder
Former Clinton Neighbor To Spend Next Quarter-Century In Prison
WCBSTV.com / Dec 2, 2008
Reporting Tony Aiello


WHITE PLAINS (CBS) / The Chappaqua man convicted of murdering his wife after staging a carjacking off the side of Route 100 in Millwood in 2006 was sentenced to 25 years to life behind prison for the crime on Tuesday.

Carlos Perez-Olivo, 60, had nothing to say in his own defense before Judge Barbara Zambelli handed down the maximum sentence with these harsh words: "The defendant is a master of deceit who contrived a diabolical plan to murder his wife for his own financial gain."

The plan involved the Nov. 18, 2006 shooting of Peggy Perez-Olivo. The motive: $900,000 in life insurance.

Last month, in an exclusive jailhouse interview, Perez-Olivo stuck by his claim that an unknown carjacker shot his wife.

But the jury found Perez-Olivo shot her in the head and himself in the stomach as part of a cover-up.

The Perez-Olivos had lived just down the street from Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The couple's three children still support their father. Their oldest son, Carlitos, held back tears as a letter from the siblings was read to the judge.

WIFE-KILLERS NEVER THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN...
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PHILIP MARKOFF: PREDATOR / KILLER SAVED SOUVENIRS FROM VICTIMS

Megan McAllister's email to ABC NEWS
"Unfortunately, you were given wrong information as was the public. All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly! A police officer in Boston (or many) is trying to make big bucks by selling this false story to the TV stations. What else is new?? Philip is an intelligent man who is just trying to live his life so if you could leave us alone we would greatly appreciate it. We expect to marry in August and share and wonderful, meaningful life together."

Police Source: Items From 2 Victims Found in Accused 'Craigslist Killer's' Apartment
FOX NEWS / Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Items from two attack victims were found in accused "Craigslist Killer" Philip Markoff's Boston-area apartment, a law enforcement source said.

A law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that police found belongings of both women in Markoff's apartment in Quincy, south of Boston.
The source wasn't authorized to speak about evidence in the investigation.

The official would not confirm reports by the Boston Herald and ABC News that the items seized by police included the victims' underwear and that he appeared to be collecting the lingerie as "souvenirs."

The news came as more details emerged Wednesday about the case authorities are building against the 23-year-old Boston University medical student.

Markoff has been charged with targeting women who advertised erotic services on Craigslist, luring them into hotels to rob them and killing one woman who fought back.

FEEL SAFER THAT ANOTHER PREDATOR IS OFF THE STREETS!
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CHOMP: Megan McAllister might have become one of Phillip Markoff's victims! Does Megan McAllister still believe that Philip Markoff is innocent or will she "stand by her man?" The evidence is stacking up against him...a lot of evidence!

BOSTON: PHILIP MARKOFF "STRANGE IN DARK WAYS"

Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) is a major research institution, providing an exceptional environment for students interested in basic science, clinical investigation, or public health and health services oriented research. BUSM has 660 medical students

Medical School Lab Partner of Accused Craigslist Killer Says He Was 'Disturbed'
FOXNEWS / Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A former medical school lab partner of the accused Craigslist killer said Philip Markoff was prone to profound mood swings and seemed "disturbed."

Tiffany Montgomery told The Boston Globe that she's "not even remotely surprised" that Markoff, 22, is a suspect in the case and said she was often alarmed at his extreme changes in mood.

Markoff would appear warm and friendly one day and then brooding and depressed the next, according to Montgomery.

She said she was so troubled by his behavior that she considered alerting Boston University school counselors that he might be suicidal.

"He just wasn't right in the head, and I knew it, and probably other people did, too," Montgomery, 26, told the Globe.

The two spent hours together in the lab while they were students at Boston University School of Medicine, according to Montgomery, but they never became close.


Markoff spoke only when someone else initiated a conversation, Montgomery said, adding that he seemed nice but "strange in a dark way."

Markoff is charged with murder in the April 14 shooting death of 26-year-old Julissa Brisman of New York City at a luxury hotel in Boston and with kidnapping and armed robbery in the other assault on April 10 at a different hotel in the city.

Meanwhile, a former high school classmate of Markoff's told the Boston Herald that he was a contemptuous high school bully.

"He had this hatred for people he thought were beneath him," said the classmate, Caitlin, 23, who asked that her last name be withheld. "He saw me as beneath him and he needed to degrade me. I think he had a complex."

TIFFANY MONTGOMERY NOT SURPRISED THAT PHILIP MARKOFF IS A KILLER ...
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CRAIGSLIST KILLER: FIANCEE SAYS PHIL MARKOFF IS BEAUTIFUL PERSON

BOSTON'S COPLEY MARRIOTT PLACE / 110 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA

BOSTON'S COPLEY MARRIOTT PLACE

The Boston Marriott Copley Place, a Boston Hotel anchors the upscale Copley Place Mall and is connected to the Prudential Center Mall. There are over 200 shops, restaurants, theatres and the Hynes Convention Center conveniently located under one roof.

Philip Markoff lives in Qunicy, and he is a Boston University pre-med student originally from upstate New York. Since his arrest, Phil Markoff has been suspended from his pre-med program.

FNC/MyFOXBoston.com / Philip Markoff, "Mr. Nice Guy...or Really Bad Dude" ???

Fiancee of Medical Student Arrested in Craigslist Killing Says He 'Could Not Hurt a Fly'

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 / ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — The fiancee of a Boston medical school student accused of fatally shooting a woman who placed an ad on Craigslist said police have the wrong man and there is no way he could have done it.

In an e-mail to ABC's "Good Morning America," Megan McAllister said Philip Markoff "could not hurt a fly."

She called him "a beautiful person inside and out," according to the message read on the air Tuesday.

McAllister said she and Markoff expect to be married in August "and share a wonderful, meaningful life together."

An e-mail message sent to McAllister via her Facebook page was not immediately returned Tuesday. There was no published telephone listing for a Megan McAllister in the Boston area.

Markoff, 22, was arrested in connection with the death of a woman last week who advertised massage services on Craigslist. Police have said he also may have been involved in other crimes against women who posted ads on Craigslist.

Two of Markoff's neighbors told "Good Morning America" on Tuesday they were stunned by the accusations.

"I can't even put it into words, the disbelief I'm feeling right now," neighbor Jonathan Uva said. "This is a great guy ... Just a total disconnect from what we're hearing in the news."

Another neighbor, Mike Dye, told the show he had Markoff over to his apartment complex for parties including a Super Bowl party.

Dye said he seemed outgoing, but also rarely talked about himself.

Uva described "Just a nice, normal couple. I lived right next door to him, and I would never have expected this," Uva said. "We thought they were just regular guys ... just our neighbors, like anyone else."

WHAT'S NEXT FOR PHILIP MARKOFF, "JUST A REGULAR GUY?"
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FLORIDA: PAM BIGGERS ON BUSINESS TRIP, VANISHED

Pam Biggers: More than a year after her disappearance, there's no clue as to what happened to the 52-year-old woman from Hueytown, Ala. Biggers was on a business trip in Panama City Beach, Fla., when she vanished Jan. 27, 2008. She was last seen in her hotel. All her belongings, including her cell phone and purse, were left in her hotel room.

No Clues in Missing Woman Case
By RUPA MIKKILINENI,
CNN / April 14, 2009

(April 14) -- Pam Biggers, a 52-year-old woman from Hueytown, Alabama, disappeared while on a business trip to the Florida Panhandle.

She drove to the La Quinta Inn at Panama City Beach on January 27, 2008, a Sunday. She checked in and talked with her husband over the phone about 5:30 p.m.

She told him she was going out to eat with a colleague who was staying across the hall.

After an early dinner, the two women returned to their rooms about 7 p.m., police said. And then Pamela Biggers simply disappeared.

"It's completely baffling," said her husband, Don Biggers. "All of her belongings, clothes, purse, cell phone, were left in her room."

Biggers' bed did not look slept in, police said, but it appeared that she had been reading in bed. Her open book and glasses were on the bedside table, and the pillows were propped up against the headboard.

She had not changed into her pajamas, and her hotel room key and car keys were in the room. There was no sign of struggle, police said.

Biggers' family believes that she left the hotel and either lost her way or became the victim of foul play.

READ PAM BIGGERS' STORY...

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HELP FIND PAM BIGGERS

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If you have any information on Pam,

please, contact the Bay County Sherriff's Office 850-747-4700.

If you see Pam, please call 911 immediately!

TRACY, CA: FOUR INDICTED FOR TEEN KIDNAP AND TORTURE

Indictment: Group shackled, tortured teen

April 1, 2009 / CNN.com /CRIME

SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- Four Californians are accused of kidnapping a 16-year-old boy and torturing him for nearly a year before he escaped captivity wearing only boxer shorts and a shackle on his ankle, according to an indictment released Wednesday.

Anthony Vincent Waiters, 34; Caren Ramirez, 43; Kelly Layne Lau, 30; and her husband, Michael Luther Schumacher, 34, were charged with a slew of offenses, including torture, aggravated mayhem, child abuse and false imprisonment by violence that allegedly occurred from January 2008 to December 2008.

Authorities said the teen was shackled in the home of Lau and Schumacher in Tracy, about 65 miles east of San Francisco. During his captivity, the teen was tortured with a bat, knife and belt, according to court documents.

The teen escaped December 1 and walked into a fitness center about 500 feet away from the home. He was bruised and battered, wearing only boxer shorts and with his bloody ankle shackled, police said.

The four also face a new charge -- assault with caustic chemicals. The indictment accused the defendants of attacking the teen with "vitriol, corrosive acid, flammable substance and caustic chemical with the intent to injure the flesh and disfigure the body of the said victim."

The 17-count indictment was handed down by a San Joaquin County grand jury on March 23. Lau and Schumacher being held on a $2.26 million bail, while Ramirez and Waiters are being held without bail, a jail official said Wednesday.

The judge has issued a gag order in the case prohibiting attorneys on either side from speaking publicly.

Lau, Ramirez and Waiters all pleaded not guilty to the charges, but Schumacher, Lau's husband, postponed entering a plea until his attorney, John Casanave, has an opportunity to review transcripts from the grand jury investigation, the San Joaquin Herald reported Wednesday.

EVIL PEOPLE DESERVE EVIL PUNISHMENT... http://www.edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/01/shackled.teen/index.html?iref=hpmostpop

CRAIGSLIST MURDER: JULISSA BRISMAN BODY FOUND AT MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE HOTEL

AP / Julissa Brisman, 26, of New York. Boston police are investigating attacks on two masseuses-for-hire at luxury hotels, including the killing of Brisman at the Marriott Copley.

FNC / Surveillance footage from the Marriot Copley Place hotel shows the suspect in the death of a woman there

AP / Frame from video surveillance camera at the Marriott Copley provided by the Boston Police Department shows a 'person of interest' in attacks on two masseuses-for-hire at luxury hotels. Boston police are investigating attacks on two masseuses-for-hire at luxury hotels, including the killing of one woman at the ritzy Marriott Copley. Both women had advertised massage services on Craigslist, the online classified service, and both were guests at luxury hotels.

Boston 'Craigslist' Killing May Be Linked to Attempted Robbery in Rhode Island
Friday, April 17, 2009 / ASSOCIATED PRESS

WARWICK, R.I. — An exotic dancer who was bound and held at gunpoint at a suburban Providence hotel by a man who answered her Craigslist ad suggested that her ordeal could be linked to a Boston hotel slaying, police said Friday.

A 26-year-old Las Vegas woman who police believe was offering sex for money through the Craigslist posting was attacked at a Holiday Inn Express late Thursday night, Warwick Police Chief Stephen McCartney said. The assailant fled when the victim's husband returned to the room.

Earlier this week, a woman who advertised massage services on Craigslist was shot and killed at a luxury hotel in Boston.

McCartney said that after Thursday's attack in Warwick, "the victim apparently made a statement to police that in her opinion, this situation mirror-imaged what happened up in Boston. I think at the point in time our police responded, nobody was thinking about that."

McCartney said he didn't know specifics of the woman's Craigslist ad, but earlier in the day said he had been told she was advertising massage services.

The description of the suspect in Thursday's attack also matches that of a "person of interest" wanted for questioning in the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Julissa Brisman of New York City at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston on Tuesday night. And the same person may have been involved in the robbery last week of another Las Vegas woman at the Westin Copley Hotel, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said.

The 29-year-old woman had also advertised massage services on Craigslist, the online classified service.

Police in Warwick, which is about 60 miles south of Boston, describe the suspect as a clean-cut white male, approximately 6-feet tall, 200-pounds, with blond hair, wearing a black coat and blue jeans.

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