NYPD: GARY McGURK KILLS MICHELLE LEE, LEAVES WITH PASSPORT

Michelle Lee, 24, murdered by Gary McGurk, 23. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown issued a statement calling Lee a "young woman with a bright and promising future which was abruptly cut short by her brutal and senseless murder..."

Gary McGurk has been arrested for the grisly murder of his ex-girlfriend, NYPD CSI Michele Lee. Police say Gary McGurk, an Irish citizen, was walking out of a side door carrying a passport and a bag of clothes.

Gary McGurk appears in a New York court charged with the murder of his former girlfriend, Michelle Lee, whose naked body was discovered in her apartment last month. McGurk is charged with 2nd degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and criminal possession of a weapon. He is being held without bail.

Former beau Gary McGurk busted in grisly slay of NYPD CSI Michele Lee
BY Nicole Bode and Alison Gendar / DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, May 22nd 2009

An ex-boyfriend who conned thousands of dollars from his NYPD girlfriend was arrested Thursday in her grisly murder, sources told the Daily News.

Gary McGurk, a handsome Irish soccer player at CUNY John Jay College, is accused of stabbing his former girlfriend Michele Lee in the throat and searing her chest with a hot iron after she was dead.

He was arrested Thursday night at his mother's house in Woodside, Queens, and is being held at the 108th Precinct stationhouse on second-degree murder charges.

Detectives had zeroed in on McGurk in the days after Lee's naked body was found stabbed, bound and brutalized in her Sunnyside apartment on April 27.

Investigators were afraid McGurk would flee to his native Ireland and escape justice, sources said.

CAUTION: DISTURBING CRIME SCENE DETAILS OF GARY MCGURK MURDER OF MICHELLE LEE ...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/05/22/2009-05-22_scamming_exbeau_busted_in_nypd_csi_slay.html

MICHELLE LEE: NYPD FORENSICS INVESTIGATOR, BRUTALIZED BY GARY McGURK

Michelle Lee, 24, met Gary McGurk at John Jay Criminal College. Forensics ties McGurk to the crime scene.

Gary McGurk, 23, accused of slaughtering ex-lover, Michelle Lee . (Iudici for News)

NYPD forensic investigator stabbed to death
Ex-lover charged with second-degree murder in 24-year-old's killing
ASSOCIATED PRESS / Sat., May 23, 2009

NEW YORK - Michelle Lee's career was solving crimes. Working as a forensic investigator for the New York Police Department, she was training to do the type of "CSI" work made famous on television.

But the 24-year-old became a victim of a crime herself, stabbed to death in her bed, her naked body found in a pool of blood. Using the same investigative techniques Lee was learning, authorities on Friday arrested her ex-lover Gary McGurk in the case, charging him with second-degree murder.

McGurk pleaded not guilty and was being held without bail. His attorney, Joseph Corozzo said his client was innocent.

"This is a gruesome crime, but my client is not responsible for it," he said. "We look forward to seeing the purported evidence in this case."

Lee had recently moved out of her parent's home and was living in Sunnyside, Queens, a quaint neighborhood of working-class families. She started working for the NYPD last September and was training in forensic investigations at a police lab analyzing evidence like hair samples, drugs, gunshot residues and bodily fluids. She was going to specialize in narcotics.

CAUTION: THE DETAILS ARE GRUESOME...GARY McGURK ARRESTED http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30905437/

MELISSA HUCKABY: KILLED SANDRA CANTU, POISONED OTHERS

Melissa Huckaby in a prior court appearance (Sandra Cantu in upper right) AP

Slaying suspect charged in 'Jane Doe' poisoning

Fri May 22, 2009 / CNN.COM/CRIME

(CNN) -- Melissa Huckaby, the former Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, will face additional charges that she tried to poison two people, including another 7-year-old girl.

A revised complaint against Huckaby, 28, of Tracy, California, was made public just hours before she was due back in court on Friday.

The new charges caused another delay in the murder case, CNN afiliate KRON reported.

The complaint charged that Huckaby "did willfully and unlawfully mingle a harmful substance with food or drink" with the intent to harm the child, identified only as "Jane M. Doe."

Another alleged poisoning victim was identified as Daniel Plowman, but no age or other information was immediately provided.

The latest charges also include one count of child abuse endangerment relating to the unidentified child, who was allegedly in Huckaby's "care and custody."

Read the complaint (PDF)

HOW MANY PEOPLE AND KIDS HAS MELISSA HUCKABY HARMED?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/22/california.slain.girl/index.html

DREW PETERSON: BODY FOUND, STACY PETERSON OR LISA STEBIC?

Chicago is on right side of map. Follow green line to center of map to reach Bolingbrook, and go a little farther down green line to Plainsfield, Illinois.

STACY PETERSON
Missing from Bolingbrook, Illinois, since October 28, 2007

LISA STEBIC

Missing from Plainfield, Illinois, since Monday, April 30, 2007

Illinois State Police investigate a site where badly decomposed body was found in Des Plaines River near Channahon, Ill. The remains were found by a cleanup crew working May 20 on the Des Plaines River. State police today said the remains were "severely deteriorated" and "mainly skeletal," adding that DNA testing may be needed for positive identification. (Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak / May 21, 2009)

Will County officials transfer a body found along the Des Plaines River to an ambulance Wednesday.

(Michael R. Schmidt/Sun-Times Ne)

Body's identity unknown: Families of Lisa Stebic, Stacy Peterson among those awaiting DNA test results / Remains discovered Wednesday in Des Plaines River
By Erika Slife and Steve Schmadeke Tribune reporters / May 22, 2009

The families of two missing Will County women might have to wait up to two weeks to learn the identity of the human remains discovered Wednesday in the Des Plaines River.

DNA testing is being done on the partial skeletal remains, which consisted of a rib cage, spinal column, and partial left and right femur bones, according to Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil, who said results likely won't be known for two weeks. But sources close to the investigation said the results could be returned as early as next week.

A preliminary autopsy performed Thursday could not determine whether the body was that of a man or woman, its race, or identity. The remains included shreds of jeans containing a small amount of money, and the person had been dead for several months or more. The coroner's office said it was unclear how the body parts were severed.

Stacy Peterson vanished from her Bolingbrook home in October 2007, and Lisa Stebic disappeared from her Plainfield home in April 2007. Both lived not far from where the remains were found.

"We know the identity is not going to be known until they do DNA testing," said Melanie Greenberg, a spokeswoman for Stebic's family. "We're cautiously hopeful that it might be Lisa. If it's not Lisa, our second wish is that it would be Stacy Peterson so that at least one of our families could get closure."

On Thursday, Illinois State Police continued searching for further evidence in the area where the body was found, along the river near Channahon just west of Interstate Highway 55.

WHAT WILL THE DNA PROVE? LISA STEBIC OR STACY PETERSON? WE ARE ALL WAITING...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-body-found-22may22,0,2618060.story

GEORGIA: GEORGE ZINKHAN BURIED HIMSELF, COMMITTED SUICIDE

Georgia Bureau of Investigation official seal: Crime fighters get their man!

Authorities swarm wooded area in Bogart, Georgia, where cadaver dogs found a body.

Law enforcement agents worked near a wooded area where the Jeep belonging to murder suspect George Zinkhan was found. (Vino Wong/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Associated Press)

Phil Skinner / pskinner@ajc.com
Athens police cordoned off an area of the Cleveland Road Elementary School playground after reports that a body was found near where George Zinkhan’s car was found.

Alpha K9 Search & Rescue cadaver dogs Circe (left) and Madison located the body of George Zinkhan Saturday. PHIL SKINNER /pskinner@ajc.com

Zinkhan’s body found in grave he dug
Police searched two days near elementary school
By Rhonda Cook, Kent A. Miles , Chip Towers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / Saturday, May 09, 2009

Fugitive murder suspect George Martin Zinkhan III dug his own grave and covered himself with debris before firing a single bullet into his head, investigators said Saturday.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations’ state crime lab confirmed early Saturday evening that the body discovered earlier that day in the woods outside Athens was Zinkhan, authorities said.

“A person not accustomed to the woods would not have found it,” Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Jack Lumpkin said. “The body was beneath the earth… The body was purposely concealed in a manner not to be discovered .”

Searchers found two handguns in the grave.

Zinkhan’s well-hidden body was discovered Saturday by cadaver dogs — an Australian shepherd and a German Shepherd — at 9:50 a.m. Saturday. The civilian Alpha Search and Rescue Team was working woods beyond the initial search area.

Zinkhan’s temporary grave was in thick woods about 1,000 yards from an elementary school and about a mile from where his red Jeep Liberty was recovered more than a week ago. Zinkhan’s home in Bogart in Clarke County is not far away.

BIZARRE ENDING TO A BIZARRE MAN...

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/05/09/%20body_found_near_zinkhan_car.html

GEORGE ZINKHAN: BODY BURIED IN GEORGIA; WHO KILLED THE KILLER?

MAP OF ATHENS, GEORGIA. TOWN OF BOGART IS TO THE LEFT.
Cadaver dogs found the body about 10 miles west of Athens in Bogart, where Mr. Zinkhan lived.

Police have discovered a body said to resemble University of Georgia professor George Zinkhan, who they say shot and killed three people, including his estranged wife, at a theater group picnic April 25. (Richard Hamm/Athens Banner-Herald/AP Photo)

GBI (GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION)
The GBI released these sketches of wanted triple-murder suspect George Zinkhan that show how he may appear today.

Authorities Identify Body in Georgia Woods as That of Fugitive Professor Wanted in Killings
Saturday, May 09, 2009 / FOX NEWS

A body found hidden in dirt and brush Saturday in the north Georgia woods is a professor accused of killing his wife and two others, authorities said.

A massive manhunt had been under way for University of Georgia marketing professor George Zinkhan, who vanished after the April 25 shootings at a community theater near the Atlanta campus.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation State Crime laboratory confirmed Saturday evening that the remains discovered earlier in northwest Athens-Clarke County were those of Zinkhan.

Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Joseph Lumpkin announced the news of the identification of the fugitive professor's body.

The guns matched those described by witnesses to the shootings, though police did not say how they believe Zinkhan died.

Authorities hoped to have a cause of death by the end of Saturday.

Cadaver dogs found Zinkhan's body about 10 miles west of Athens in thick woods in Bogart, where he lived.

Searchers — as many as 200 at one point — had been scouring the woods since his Jeep was found wrecked and abandoned in a ravine about a mile away a week ago.

HOW DID GEORGE ZINKHAN GET BURIED IN THE GEORGIA WOODS?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519625,00.html

DREW PETERSON: HOW MANY WIVES CAN YOU KILL BEFORE BEING CAUGHT?

AP / May 7, 2009 / State police Lt. Carl Anderson with a fellow investigator escort Drew Peterson into District 5 State Police headquarters in Lockport, Ill.

Peterson’s fiancee, Christina Raines, 24: ‘I just don’t believe it’

Feb. 13: Drew Peterson, who is suspected in the disappearance of his fourth wife and the death of his third, and his fiancee, Christina Raines, talk about their plans for the future.
Today show

Drew Peterson Charged With Murdering Third Wife, Held on $20M Bond
Thursday, May 07, 2009 / FOX NEWS

After pursing Drew Peterson for 1 1/2 years after the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, authorities in Illinois closed in Thursday, arresting the former Chicago-area police sergeant on two counts of first-degree murder in the drowning death of his third wife.

Peterson — who launched into the national spotlight after Stacy Peterson's suspicious disappearance in October 2007 — is being held on $20 million bond, police and prosecutors said Thursday night at a news conference.

Peterson, 55, hasn't been charged in Stacy Peterson's disappearance. But he now is criminally accused of killing Kathleen Savio, the third wife, who was found at home dead in a dry bathtub on March 1, 2004.

Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow said at the news conference that a judge granted his request for $20 million bond "without question."

"This is an extremely grave and serious matter, and I think that's reflected in the bond," Glasgow said.
An arraignment is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. CDT Friday in Joliet, Ill.

Glasgow said he intends to introduce evidence at trial that would allow Savio "to testify from the grave" through third-party statements uncovered during the investigation.

A recently passed law, spurred by the Savio and Stacy Peterson cases, would allow the statements to be admitted as an exception to hearsay rules if they are proven in a pre-trial hearing to be reliable, probative and relevant, he said.

"We're very confident in our case," Glasgow said.

Police said the arrest and indictment were the result of 18 months of intensive police work that garnered hundreds of leads and produces thousands of pages of investigative reports.
The search continues for Stacy Peterson, police said.

Drew Peterson is being held at the Will County Adult Detention Facility in Joliet, Ill., under supervision of the Will County Sheriff's office. His children were taken by police and transferred to family services.

STUNNING ARREST OF DREW PETERSON... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519392,00.html

SKYLAR DELEON: "WELL-DESERVED DEATH" FOR DROWNING TOM AND JACKIE HAWKS

TRUSTING VICTIMS
Thomas Hawks, a retired probation officer, was a victim in a chilling 2004 murder. He and his wife, Jackie Hawks, were spending time on their yacht, the Well-Deserved, when they were forced by assailants to sign over the boat and then tied to an anchor and thrown into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Catalina Island. The suspected murderer is former child actor and one-time Mighty Morphin Power Rangers extra Skylar DeLeon, who has pleaded not guilty and is currently under trial for the crime. Neither body has been discovered. (Courtesy of the Hawks Family)

Tom and Jackie Hawks (top) were murdered by Skylar Deleon, (bottom left) while at sea on their yacht, the Well-Deserved. (Courtesy of the Hawks Family/Skylar Deleon)

THE MASTERMIND AND LURE
Skylar James DeLeon, 26, and former wife, Jennifer Henderson, 24. Pregnant Jennifer convinced the Hawks to believe her husband wanted to buy their yacht by bringing their 9-month old baby aboard the yacht. Jennifer Henderson received two life terms without parole.

ACCOMPLICE
Myron Gardner, Sr., 45: Suspect accused in the murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks. Myron Sandora Gardner had been a longtime member of the Insane Crips Gang in Long Beach. His gang moniker was "Fly." (JACK E. HANCOCK, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER)

ACCOMPLICE AND STAR WITNESS FOR PROSECUTION
Alonso Machain, 22: Machain explained in court that his assignment was to restrain Jackie Hawks above deck. Machain said Skylar Deleon asked him to tape the couple's eyes and mouths shut. He watched as Skylar Deleon grabbed an anchor and some rope, tied the Hawks to the anchor and brought them to the back of the boat.

ACCOMPLICE

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 40: Jury recommends execution. Deleon threw the anchor overboard while Kennedy pushed the Hawkses down toward the water until the anchor pulled them overboard.

Skylar Deleon gets death sentence in Newport Beach yacht murders
-- Christine Hanley / 12:14 PM / April 10, 2009

A Long Beach man was sentenced to death today for lashing Thomas and Jackie Hawks to the anchor of a yacht and throwing them overboard off the coast of Newport Beach in a plot to steal the vessel and plunder the couple’s life savings.

Skylar Deleon showed little reaction as Orange County Superior Court Judge Frank Fasel explained that mitigating factors -- including any abuse Deleon suffered while growing up -- were outweighed by the “horrors” of the 2004 murders of the Hawkses and the earlier 2003 slaying of John Peter Jarvi in a Mexican desert.

Deleon was convicted of all three murders.

READ MORE...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/skylar-deleon-gets-death-sentence-in-newport-yacht-murders.html

READ BACKGROUND OF HOW A CHILD GROWS UP WITH NO CONSCIENCE...

'Yacht' Killer Mom: Deleon's Home of Drugs, Orgies
Drama in Courtroom as Killer's Mom Recounts How Son Almost Drowned
By LEE FERRAN and KIMI CULP / Oct. 29, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6137048&page=1

MORE OF SKYLAR DELEON'S DEMENTED MIND...

While awaiting trial in jail, Deleon was also charged with soliciting another inmate to murder his father and cousin. He was also accused of killing John Jarvi, a resident of Anaheim who was found dead in Mexico in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylar_Deleon

COLORADO: SUSPEND DEATH PENALTY OR SOLVE COLD CASE CRIMES?

Nathan Dunlap, on Colorado's death row, for killing four people at a Chuck E Cheese Restaurant in 1993

Colorado May End Death Penalty to Focus on Cold Cases
Sunday, May 03, 2009

DENVER — Colorado and nine other states considered abolishing the death penalty this year to save money, but Colorado's proposal has a twist: It would use the savings to investigate about 1,400 unsolved slayings.

The measure has sparked a fierce debate between prosecutors and some victims' families. Prosecutors want to keep capital punishment as an option for heinous crimes, and they say the bill has raised unrealistic hopes about solving cold cases.

Supporters of the bill say it's more important to find and prosecute killers still on the loose than to execute the ones already tried and convicted.

(snip)

Proponents of the bill, led by Evergreen-based Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons, say Colorado's death penalty is so rarely used that it's not a deterrent. The group says hundreds of thousands of dollars are wasted trying to put people to death when hundreds of murderers are free.

Suthers and other prosecutors say additional DNA testing, including a proposal pending in the Legislature to take samples at the time of a felony arrest, could do more than expanding the state's cold case unit to solve old cases.

Colorado has executed only one person in the past 42 years, Gary Lee Davis, put to death in 1997 for his conviction in a 1986 slaying.

Two men remain on Colorado's death row. Sir Mario Owens was convicted last year of killing Javad Marshall-Fields, a potential witness in a murder trial, and Vivian Wolfe, Marshall-Fields' fiancee. Nathan Dunlap was convicted in 1996 of murder, attempted murder and other charges for killing four people and wounding a fifth at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Aurora in December 1993.

WHAT WILL COLORADO DECIDE ON THE DEATH PENALTY?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518745,00.html

MYRTLE BEACH: BRITTANEE DREXEL, 17, GONE WITHOUT A TRACE

BLUE WATER RESORT, MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA

2001 South Ocean Blvd, Myrtle Beach, SC 29578

GEORGE ZINKHAN: GEORGIA'S KILLER PROFESSOR JEEP FOUND IN RAVINE

Georgia: Map of area where police are searching for Professor George Zinkhan

WSB News (WSB RADIO)
New Photo of Fugitive Professor / By Jon Lewis @ April 30, 2009

The television show, "America's Most Wanted" has posted Zinkhan on their website, and the show is considering airing a segment on the crime and the hunt on May 16. The 57 year old marketing professor's passport is missing and police say Zinkhan had purchased a ticket to the Netherlands prior to the shooting. The ticket is for May 2. Zinkhan owns a home in Amsterdam.

MyFOXAtlanta.com
George Zinkhan

AP / May 1: The red Jeep belonging to murder suspect and former University of Georgia professor George Zinkhan is transported on a flatbed truck in Bogart, Ga. Authorities who have searched nearly

Georgia Professor Forced Jeep to Crash Into Ravine, Police Say
Friday, May 01, 2009 / FOX NEWS

Authorities believe a fugitive Georgia professor on the run since allegedly gunning down his wife and two others intentionally put his Jeep into drive and let it plummet into a ravine near his home.

He also theorize that George Zinkhan, 57, is still in the Atlanta area — where he lives and teaches business courses at the University of Georgia — and that the rampage may have been sparked by a fight with his wife, who reportedly was planning to leave him.

"We don't believe he drove it off, 'cause it's in drive," one officer told reporters of the crashed Jeep, according to MyFOXAtlanta.com. "Looks like he put it in drive and maybe kind of pushed it off the edge."

Police hadn't previously revealed a motive, but FBI agent Greg Jones said Friday that interviews with friends and family indicate the shooting likely stemmed from a domestic dispute between Zinkhan and his wife, 47-year-old attorney Marie Bruce.

Authorities have some indication she was preparing to file for divorce, he said.

Detectives swarmed the heavily wooded area where Zinkhan's wrecked red Jeep was discovered Friday, but turned up no sign of the fugitive professor. Some officers in pickup trucks drove down dirt roads and helicopters searched from above.

BEWARE! STAY ALERT! GEORGE ZINKHAN IS STILL OUT THERE AMONG US. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518589,00.html

Letter From UGA President Michael Adams To Students http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/19299724/detail.html

PHILIP MARKOFF: OWES $130,000; TAXPAYERS PAY FOR ATTORNEY

Photo by Mark Garfinkel (file)
Philip Markoff appeared in court Tuesday with his lawyer, John Salsberg.

Philip Markoff $130G in debt
Appointed tax-paid defense attorney
By Jessica Fargen and Jessica Van SackTuesday,

April 28, 2009

The second-year medical student accused of murdering an erotic masseuse with a bullet to her heart is $130,000 in debt and has been awarded a taxpayer-paid defense attorney, according to court records.

Philip Markoff, 23, does not receive money from his parents and has been living off his student loans while attending Boston University, according to a court document in Boston Municipal Court. Markoff is now suspended from BU.

"(Markoff) stated he did not receive financial support from his family. (Markoff) further stated he was unemployed for a lengthy period of time and was essentially living off of student loans in the amount of $130,000,” according to an April 23 document signed by a probation officer.

The officer interviewed Markoff on April 21 and wrote that he signed an indigency form. That same day, the Committee for Public Counsel Services appointed attorney John Salsberg to represent Markoff.

WHAT OTHER SECRETS DOES PHILIP MARKOFF HAVE FOR US?

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/ 2009_04_28_Philip_Markoff__130G__in_debt:_Appointed_tax-paid_defense_attorney/srvc=home&position=1

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.
CBS

Carlos Perez-Olivo listens as he is sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife.
CBS

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...
http://wcbstv.com/local/carlos.perez.olivo.2.877772.html

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!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517409,00.html

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 ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517409,00.html

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.

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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.

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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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