This story was first revealed within the Herald on August 16, 2010 — the day after accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff dedicated suicide whereas locked up in Boston’s Nashua Street Jail.
** April 10, 2009: Las Vegas hooker Trisha Leffler experiences {that a} man attacked her with a gun on the Back Bay Westin Hotel, stealing $800.
** April 14, 2009: Police discover 25-year-old masseuse Julissa Brisman overwhelmed and fatally shot by a 9mm handgun on the Marriott Copley Place.
** April 16, 2009: A stripper staying on the Holiday Inn in Warwick, R.I., tells police that an armed man attacked and tried to rob her, however fled when her husband entered the room. He left behind tell-tale plastic zip-tie cuffs that match these used within the different incidents.
** April 20, 2009: Police arrest Philip Markoff, 23, whereas he and his fiancee, Megan McAllister, are en path to Connecticut’s Foxwoods Casino. It would have been his fourth journey there in a month.
** April 21, 2009: Markoff is charged in each Boston crimes. He pleads not responsible and is held with out bail in Boston’s Nashua Street Jail.
** April 24, 2009: Police place Markoff on suicide watch, after he reportedly makes an attempt to hold himself together with his shoelaces.
** April 26, 2009: Markoff’s fiancee calls off their marriage ceremony, deliberate for Aug. 14, 2009, though she continues to pledge her help.
** May 4, 2009: Prosecutors formally cost Markoff within the Rhode Island assault.
** June 22, 2009: Prosecutors current a number of proof at Markoff’s arraignment at Suffolk Superior Court, together with fingerprints and a gun hidden in a hole “Gray’s Anatomy” textbook.
** July 16, 2009: Boston Judge Frank M. Gaziano rejects a declare by protection attorneys that Markoff’s likelihood of a good trial has been tainted by leaks to the media.
** March 20, 2010: Markoff supplies prosecutors with a swab of DNA.
** May 26, 2010: Lawyers say the Markoff case won’t go to trial till a minimum of March 2011, suspending the proceedings by six months.
** Aug. 15, 2010: Markoff discovered useless in his cell from an obvious suicide.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”