Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Feith tells The Boston Globe that federal investigators in New Hampshire are no longer looking into the matter. Officials say Markoff committed suicide Sunday in his jail cell in Massachusetts.
A lawyer for the family of the masseuse, Julissa Brisman, blames State Line Gun Shop in Mason, N.H., for selling Markoff the gun in February 2009 without doing enough to verify his identity.
Authorities say Markoff used a driver’s license belonging to a New York state resident to buy the gun. Gun shop owner Paul Gauffin couldn’t be reached for comment on Tuesday.
YOUR COMMENTS
There are only two people who bear any responsibility in this woman’s death: the killer, and the woman herself, who chose to live the criminal life as a prostitute. Both are now dead, case closed.