B.U. students wary of Craigslist Killer

BOSTON—After the Monday arrest of Boston University student Philip Markoff in connection with the murder of Julissa Brisman, whom Markoff found by her masseuse add on Craigslist, other B.U. students started to take a second look at their surroundings.

Before he was dismissed by the university, 22-year-old Markoff was a second-year medical student who allegedly shot Brisman at the Copley Marriott and is also thought to have been involved with two other similar cases involving the Internet.

“As soon as I heard it was a B.U. student, I tried to find him on Facebook so I could tell him what a pathetic human being he was,” sophomore Alex Boyd, who also said the situation reminded him of an episode of “Law & Order,” said.

He was unable to find the Facebook, though, which was most likely deactivated “because so many people were telling him he was worthless and going to hell,” Boyd continued.

Colleen King, a sophomore who lives in Danielsen Hall, the first Boston University Shuttle stop on the Charles River campus after the medical campus, expressed nervousness about the possibility that she has seen the “Craigslist Killer.”

“It makes me wary to think that I may have ridden the B.U. bus with him,” she said of Markoff.

King’s roommate, sophomore Theresa Amrhein, said she was not more concerned about her safety after learning that the alleged killer was a B.U. student.

However, “It’s embarrassing that we go to school with a murderer,” she said.

Boyd and Amrhein both also live in Danielsen and regularly use the shuttle service, but neither was particularly worried about having ridden the B.U. bus with Markoff.


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