This story was first printed within the Herald on August 16, 2010.
Julissa Brisman’s devastated household — already heartbroken by her vicious homicide in a swanky Boston lodge room final 12 months — is now holding out hope alleged Craigslist killer Philip Markoff left a tell-all word earlier than apparently killing himself inside his jail cell.
“It would be so wonderful if he finally admitted his guilt,” mentioned Mark Pines, a New York City musician and shut pal of the late Julissa Brisman.
Pines mentioned he spent most of yesterday morning consoling Brisman’s mom, Carmen Guzman, who was crushed to be taught that the person accused of killing her 25-year-old daughter wouldn’t stand trial.
“She’s beside herself,” mentioned Pines, who admitted to having “mixed” emotions about Markoff’s demise.
“There’s some relief, because it’s a form of closure, but it’s not true closure,” he mentioned.
“A trial would have been grueling and heartstopping, but it would have provided closure.”
Markoff, 24, a former Boston University medical pupil, was discovered lifeless of an obvious suicide on the Nashua Street Jail yesterday morning.
He had been behind bars since April 2009, awaiting trial for Brisman’s homicide. He was additionally going through separate armed theft fees in Boston and Rhode Island.
On Saturday, some 400 mourners gathered in Milford, Conn., to recollect Brisman and different victims of violence, Pines mentioned.
There, Pines carried out his tune, “For the Sake of a Getaway,” which he mentioned he wrote for Brisman. The level of the tune, he mentioned, is that he believes Brisman was killed so her attacker might escape.
Prosecutors have mentioned she was killed in a doorway on the Marriott Copley Hotel in downtown Boston, after making an attempt to battle off her killer. A close-by lodge visitor noticed her physique strewn throughout the doorway to her room and referred to as for assist.
Pines takes solace within the reality Brisman wouldn’t hand over.
“She was tough, and she came back at him,” he mentioned.
“I hope Philip Markoff is once again face-to-face with Julissa, for a brief moment, before he goes to hell,” he mentioned.
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