Craigslist killing suspect to be arraigned

[June 22, 2009]  BOSTON (AP) -- A former medical student accused of killing a 25-year-old masseuse he met through Craigslist is being arraigned in Boston on first-degree murder and other charges.

Philip Markoff is expected to be in Superior Court on Monday. He was indicted by a grand jury last week after a two-month investigation.

The 23-year-old upstate New York native is accused of the April 14 shooting of 25-year-old Julissa Brisman of New York at the Boston Marriott Copley Place hotel. She had advertised in the "exotic services" section of Craigslist.

He also was indicted in the April 10 armed robbery of a 29-year-old Las Vegas woman at Boston's Westin Copley Place hotel.

[Associated Press]

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