Markoff’s dark secrets die too — Craigslist suspect’s suicide ends sad tale
BOSTON – When the world first saw Philip Markoff, frozen on surveillance footage, he was breezing through the lobby of a luxury hotel, nonchalantly tapping away on his cellphone. He looked nothing like anyone’s idea of a murder suspect.
But Markoff’s boy-next-door image masked a sordid, secret life, prosecutors said, a predatory existence in the seamy underworld of online prostitution, attacking and robbing women he met through Craigslist in apparent support of a gambling habit.
International attention branded the medical school student as the Craigslist killer.
Sunday, almost exactly one year after his scheduled wedding day, his life came to a wretched end in a jail cell. Any hope of learning more about the dark impulses that had allegedly led Markoff to rob and kill died with him.