Featured on the front page again today.
"Markoff scrawled messages in blood; Craigslist suspect wrote ex-fiancee’s name as he took his life" by Maria Cramer and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | August 17, 2010
In a macabre twist in the already bizarre tale of Philip Markoff, the accused Craigslist killer scrawled in blood the name Megan, that of his onetime fiancee, and the word pocket on his jail cell wall before dying, four law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case said.
A lot of BIZARRE THINGS in the PAPER lately!
Megan McAllister had broken off the couple’s engagement shortly after Markoff was arrested. There were photos of her placed around the cell, according to one of the officials.
That sure seems weird.
The meaning of the word pocket smeared nearby confounded investigators, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the news media.
Yeah, you see that in the papers a lot, too.
The chilling image emerged as authorities disclosed other circumstances of Markoff’s apparent suicide....
So what s*** are they shoveling today?
EMTs arriving at the scene said they found wounds on his neck and ankles, according to Boston Emergency Medical Services officials. Other officials have said Markoff was found alone in his cell with a plastic bag tied over his head and a severed artery.
One of the officials said yesterday that Markoff apparently used a piece of a razor to pierce his carotid artery. Attempts to reach McAllister or the lawyer who represented her last year were not successful.
Why would they want to talk about this?
I'm sure the girl has happily moved on with her life and tried to forget all about this f*** (which is what we all will do soon despite the Globe's selective agenda-pushing).
Related:
"A person can bleed to death within two minutes from a lacerated carotid artery"
So WHAT WAS he doing with a RAZOR?
Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral, who runs the
No, he was only ON a SUICIDE WATCH before!
“If anything was amiss we would bring him in to evaluate him to determine if he needed to be put on suicide watch,’’ Cabral said in a telephone interview. “As far as I know right now, there were no disciplinary problems, no acting out.’’
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Markoff, who had been a second-year student at Boston University School of Medicine, had been placed on 24-hour suicide watch days after his arrest in April 2009 after officials at Nashua Street Jail found marks on his neck that might have been signs of a suicide attempt. After evaluation by a psychiatrist, he was taken off suicide watch on May 14, 2009, Cabral said.
And 15 months later right before the case is to come to trial he decides to do this?
If it is the anniversary of the wedding that drove him to it as the Globe implies, then wouldn't he have done this a year ago?
I'm sorry, readers; however, my morning newspaper has forfeited the faith of belief with its never-ending lying over everything.
This story stinks, and I'm not buying it.
She said she did not believe Markoff had made another attempt to kill himself until Sunday.
Cabral said that jail officials check on inmates every 30 minutes, but she declined to comment on how often officers checked on Markoff the day of his death....
--more--"How does her credibility stack up, Globe?
"Suicides plague Suffolk jail
IN JUNE, Suffolk County sheriff Andrea Cabral was quick to praise her corrections and medical staff, citing their “excellent job on mental health and suicide watch’’ at the county’s jail and house of correction. Recent facts suggest otherwise....
Not that the Globe would know much about facts.
Cabral has been quick to call attention to reforms in the county jail system. But she didn’t grant interviews for more than 24 hours after Markoff’s death, leaving unanswered questions about her staff’s ability to recognize warning signs of suicide and take preventive measures.
Oh, that is why the Globe took out the editorial hatchet.
She can’t claim ignorance. In the June interview, Cabral said that 42 percent of her inmates present with some form of mental illness. “It’s an incredibly sick population, astonishingly ill,’’ she said.
In the same interview, she stated that there had been “one, maybe two’’ suicides at her prisons during the last eight years. Yesterday, she said that there have been five suicides over that period at the Nashua Street facility alone....
--more--"Yeah, we can dismiss the front-page PoHS.
And look how the good boy got the gun:
"US says gun shop in N.H. broke no law in sale to Markoff" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | August 17, 2010
Federal prosecutors in New Hampshire investigated possible criminal charges against the gun store that allegedly sold Philip Markoff the semiautomatic handgun used to kill Julissa Brisman but found no evidence that the dealer broke any laws, an assistant US attorney said yesterday....
Brisman’s family, deprived of the chance to confront the alleged Craigslist killer in court after Markoff’s apparent suicide on Sunday, is calling on federal prosecutors to investigate the New Hampshire gun dealer that sold the suspected murder weapon....
I wouldn't get my hopes up.
The owner of the gun shop could not be reached for comment yesterday. A worker at the shop declined to comment.
Donald Feith, an assistant US attorney in New Hampshire, said he could not specify why prosecutors did not pursue the case, but said gun dealers in general can do only so much to verify someone’s identity.
Any relation to war-criminal Doug Feith?
Authorities say Markoff bought the pistol using a driver’s license belonging to a man named Andrew Miller, who investigators determined had no connection to the case. They do not know how Markoff obtained the license, but said he and Miller resembled each other....
I'm not expecting any answers, either.
Nope, none in there anyway.
Update: Markoff fashioned 'primitive scalpel' to commit suicide
Now he cut himself with a pen?
