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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"I thought I liked snow," Angela Carlos laughed as she explained her thought process in applying to Boston University. The 20-year-old brown-eyed, brunette junior, with bangs swept across her forehead, is tan and wearing a red jumper. She made the move from Southern hot spot Atlanta to Boston more than two and a half years ago.

Though the city has a low of 1 degree, Carlos doesn't regret her decision. According to Carlos, she wanted to escape the South and leave everything familiar behind.

Enrolled in the College of Communication's photojournalism program, Carlos has always loved photography. She also enjoys writing and thought the journalism curriculum would be a "good combination" of her passions.

Carlos, who fell in love with Massachusetts' capital while on vacation with her family when she was 8, says that her experiences growing up in the South have been much different from those of her friends. She regularly visits the Boston Common to take photographs and paint the scenery, and she has hosted a radio show on WTBU for the past few semesters; the program's title is "Pet Rocks."