Seven Days of Rage: The Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer (48 Hours Mysteries)

Join Jacqueline Foreman as she inteterviews authors Paul LaRosa and Maria Cramer who wrote the stunning book Seven Days of Rage: The Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer (48 Hours Mysteries). For this book The Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer a producer from the 48 Hours Mystery team (Paul LaRosa)teamed up with Boston Globe reporter Maria Cramer to reveal the secret life of the young man known now as the "Craigslist Killer." Compressed into a seven-day time span, the story of the Craigslist Killer just kept unfolding: three vulnerable women, each cornered in a hotel room, one of them murdered when she resisted. Who would be next? The images of the suspect are jarring: an all- American handsome young man who could be the guy next door, clean-cut and casually dressed. Using hightech investigative tools and old-fashioned shoe leather, detectives from the Boston Police Department track down their man and arrest the unlikeliest of suspects: twenty-three-year-old Philip Markoff, a brilliant, wellregarded medical student at Boston University who is engaged to be married on the beach at sunset to a beautiful and trusting fiancée. If guilty, what is his motivation? Why did he allegedly use Craigslist, the online bulletin board, to pick out his victims? The arrest of Markoff, a man with no criminal record, seems incomprehensible, but the evidence against him seems overwhelming. Police match his gun and fingerprints to the crimes, and use a trail of digital bread crumbs to lead to Markoff's doorstep. When Manhattan model and Julissa Brisman agreed to meet a client at the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, she thought it would be just one more day on her road to recovering from an alcohol addiction. Instead, she was discovered lying facedown in a pool of blood on a hallway carpet, her head battered, a bullet through her heart. The hotel's surveillance cameras captured the image of a tall, blond, clean-cut man, texting on his BlackBerry--sociopath anyone?