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Report: 'Craigslist Killer' Commits Suicide in Jail Cell
Fox News ^ | 8/15/10 | Foxnews.com

Posted on 08/15/2010 10:37:29 AM PDT by Dengar01

Authorities say the former Boston University medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist is dead from an apparent jailhouse suicide in Boston.

Ed Geary, a spokesman for the Suffolk County sheriff's office, says Philip Markoff was declared dead by emergency medical workers at about 10:15 Sunday morning. The body was found in the Nashua Street Jail.

"Sad to say, it's very true. It's shocking and very saddening," Markoff's defense attorney John Salsberg told the BostonHerald.com.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: craigslist; craigslistkiller; philipmarkoff; suicide
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To: DCPatriot

My favorite line in these situations is: “He was just beginning to turn his life around.”

He turned it around all right.


21 posted on 08/15/2010 11:22:23 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Dengar01

Oh, well. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Thanks for saving the taxpayers millions of dollars on a three-ring circus of a trial.


22 posted on 08/15/2010 11:24:57 AM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: Dengar01

Again with the disordered and irrational slant of the press and the elite that drives it. Nobody gives a eff that the monster is dead, including his phony-ass council.


23 posted on 08/15/2010 11:34:58 AM PDT by Havisham
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To: devere

Really, devere, a sad end? More like the best thing that could have happened once the thrill killer chose his life of evil. Why do people elevate such blots on humanity to persons once-promising? It is, in itself, disordered, irrational, and accessory to evil.


24 posted on 08/15/2010 11:45:37 AM PDT by Havisham
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To: wideawake

He was as you say, an ego out of hand, an example of “rudra”.

The problem likely was that he was being biatch slapped nightly by a 300 pound gorilla who made him his tenderloin.
Thats just the way prison is.

He surely pished off some of the prison administrators IMHO.


25 posted on 08/15/2010 11:57:36 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
Authorities say the former Boston University medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist is dead from an apparent jailhouse suicide in Boston.
Maybe he read how Al Gore is off the hook.
26 posted on 08/15/2010 1:12:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Dengar01

His mouthpiece is SADDENED?? Well sure...it cost him money and face time on CNN!!!


27 posted on 08/15/2010 1:17:40 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Dengar01

Bush’s fault.


28 posted on 08/15/2010 1:29:42 PM PDT by Melian ("There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint." ~L. Bloy)
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To: Dengar01

I’m happy and pleased.


29 posted on 08/15/2010 1:41:47 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Gone Galt and loving it)
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To: SaxxonWoods

But now we will never know if he was really guilty. Oh well....
//sarcasm off


30 posted on 08/15/2010 1:46:57 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I lived in VT for four years. That was enough.)
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To: Dengar01

Sweet!


31 posted on 08/15/2010 1:49:11 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Dengar01

“I think the lawyer is “sad” because he didn’t get PAID”

There. Fixed it!/s;)


32 posted on 08/15/2010 1:49:37 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Dengar01

Why do I have a strange feeling that Bernard Madoff is next?

These softies can’t do hard time when they do the crime.


33 posted on 08/15/2010 2:31:40 PM PDT by BBC_SPOOKS (Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.)
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To: BBC_SPOOKS

Free ads, no slimy adult hookup section, and you can use your Youtube videos etc. AND, they have a plan to give away amazing travel, etc.

http://www.adbirds.com


34 posted on 08/15/2010 2:54:13 PM PDT by GWConservative (Welcome to OBAMAstan! - Do you know where your Congress-critter is?)
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To: Havisham

“Really, devere, a sad end? More like the best thing that could have happened once the thrill killer chose his life of evil.”

People do sometimes partially redeem themselves, even during a life in prison. Nathan Leopold comes to mind. And of course we are unfortunately quite aware of criminals at the highest levels of government who will never be punished. I have nothing against the death penalty for murderers, if we are certain of their guilt. But once society decides on life in prison as the penalty, we owe it to OURSELVES to behave in a civilized manner. I’m not clear on whether the savage attitude toward prison inmates often expressed on this website is due to an understandable frustration with crime, or just a more general desire to express hatred toward any socially acceptable target.

Philip Markoff certainly deserved the misfortune he brought upon himself. I do sympathize with his parents and former fiancee. Perhaps the finality of his death is the least painful outcome for them.


35 posted on 08/15/2010 2:54:31 PM PDT by devere
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To: GWConservative

The giveaway plan...

http://www.adbirds.com/AboutAdbirds/?Travel+Incentives


36 posted on 08/15/2010 2:57:00 PM PDT by GWConservative (Welcome to OBAMAstan! - Do you know where your Congress-critter is?)
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To: devere

There are few things that offer less possibility of doubt than that the murderer’s family are, indeed, better off.

Moral relativism never made anything better and I’m thankful it can be profoundly ill-at-ease here.

The Free Republic forum isn’t great all the time. It’s just great more often than anywhere else on the web. Some posters can be absolutist and harsh but they hardly define the culture here. Civility is uppermost with most.


37 posted on 08/15/2010 3:24:16 PM PDT by Havisham
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To: BBC_SPOOKS

“Why do I have a strange feeling that Bernard Madoff is next?”

Not likely.
http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/66468/


38 posted on 08/15/2010 3:32:00 PM PDT by devere
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To: Dengar01

John Salvi “offed” himself out there in Mass back in 96

0_0


39 posted on 08/15/2010 7:28:54 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32 You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: devere
By the way, prisons do not exist to punish criminals with homosexual rape, in spite of the many peculiar posters on this website that think that is their main function.

I agree with you. Also a common statement is, "may he burn in hell". When I see that statement, I always click on the screen name of the commenter, to see if they describe themselves as Christians, many do and it is a most unChristian sentiment.

40 posted on 08/15/2010 8:36:30 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Nobody reads tag lines.)
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