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coursepedia.com: Blog http://www.coursepedia.com/index.php/blog Blog Description en-us Markoff too Good to Be True http://www.coursepedia.com/index.php/blog/blogdetail/bid/180 23-Apr-2009 <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Remember the old adage, &lsquo;If it looks too good to be true, then it isn't'? I took a bit of poetic license with that one but really, no one is perfect and here is living proof.<o:p></o:p> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Philip Markoff is handsome, clean-cut and a medical student at Boston University to boot. He was planning a beachfront wedding to a gorgeous woman this summer. Too good to be true! I would say so and look at what happened.<o:p></o:p> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The massive weight of all of this studying, appearing to be someone that he isn't and getting married all at once was too much for even the best of the best of the pretenders and he blew a gasket. Markoff is charged with murdering one woman and attempting to rob and tie up another woman. He is also implicated in other prostitute's murders.<o:p></o:p> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The women that he chose were found under the personal ads in Craigslist. Not the best place to advertise your needs and wants. This is too perfect for a personality such as Markoff. Lonely women with whom he could take advantage, beat and rob or murder. Too easy! Most of us who had been around the man could have figured out this scenario long before it happened.<o:p></o:p> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Why did he go out at night? Where was his fianc&eacute;e? Had he exhibited sociopathic behaviors in childhood? Was he treated for any mental or emotional difficulties? Were his parents overly strict and demanding? Who were his friends and classmates?<o:p></o:p> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oh now I get it! There was that one time when he&hellip;. Fill in the blanks. Why does anyone do what they do and get arrested? Will his family bail him out and send him to the family doctor? Will his fianc&eacute;e still stand beside him? Time will tell!<o:p></o:p>