You can't kill hookers in fancy hotels!

[JupiterSunsation]

Boston: 26 year old girl killed at the Copley Plaza Marriott after placing an ad for private massages on Craigslist............



Friends remembered Julissa Brisman today as an aspiring actress and model, a sweet, energetic young woman who battled alcoholism and was trying to leave her old life behind.

Videographer Mark Pines worked with Brisman at Near Ear Logo, a New York group that promotes safe cellphone use. Brisman modeled there and was featured as the "Cell Phone Girl" in a short public service video, which can be found here. Pines described Brisman today as an alcoholic who had been sober for well over a year.

"She was in recovery, and she had done just an amazing job," said Pines, who convinced Brisman she needed help and occasionally accompanied her to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. "I was so proud of her. She had turned her life around, and had an amazing future. She had left her old life behind."

Brisman was shot and killed on the 20th floor of the Marriott Copley on Tuesday night by a man who police believe she may have met through an ad for massage services she posted on Craigslist. Authorities found a massage table in her hotel room.

Pines said today that he thought Brisman had given up meeting men in hotels, even although she was struggling financially. Brisman gave massages that did not involve sex, Pines said, stressing that she was not a prostitute.

"That's the tragedy of this," he said. "It's like escaping from Alcatraz and going back for your hat. She had given up all that."

Brisman had recently "qualified" in Alcoholics Anonymous, Pines said, explaining that she had been sober long enough to lead a meeting.

Edith Meeks, executive director of HB Studio, a theater studio in Greenwich Village, said Brisman had taken several acting classes there, most recently a technique and scene course two summers ago.

Pines, who met Brisman six years ago and said they had become "the best of friends," learned of Brisman's death from her mother, Carmen Guzman. Brisman also has a sister, Melissa, he said.

"We just cried for 15 minutes," she said. "She probably thought, just one more time and that's it."

Matthew Terhune, a 34-year-old photographer from Queens, photographed Brisman in November and January. He described her as a sweet, energetic personality who gulped Red Bulls and "wouldn't hurt a fly."

Brisman was often vague about details in her life, Terhune said, but she often traveled. When asked about how she was making money, Brisman told him that she earned up to $1,000 a night working bachelor parties, but insisted all she had to do was walk around in a bikini.

"She would say, 'I get paid just to look pretty,' " Terhune said. "We said, "That's all?" But she always said, "Ooh, I would never touch them, that's gross."

Terhune said the revelations about Brisman's occupation meshed with her mysterious existence.

"Her stories never really made sense," he said. "I guess it was clear she was an escort."

[JupiterSunsation]

The other half of the story........

Pattern emerges in hotel attacks
1 woman killed; both victims had ads online
An image released by police of a man wanted in connection with the shooting of a woman at the Marriott Copley Hotel.

By Peter Schworm and Maria Cramer
Globe Staff / April 16, 2009

He looks as if he just stepped from the pages of a fashion catalog, with a stylish, dark jacket, tousled hair, and cool nonchalance as he glides down an escalator to a marble landing, casually typing a message into a cellphone.

But the young man, caught on surveillance tapes Tuesday, isn't another tourist or businessman. He is, police believe, an unlikely killer near an equally unlikely murder scene, the 20th floor of the Marriott Copley in the Back Bay.

And as authorities launched a hunt for the man - also captured on surveillance cameras last week at the Westin Copley Hotel, where a 29-year-old Las Vegas woman was bound and robbed at gunpoint - the killing this week opened a window on a vast and elusive underworld of prostitutes who advertise online and do business at high-end hotels.

"What we believe is that there are a series of independent operations that are occurring, and it's very difficult for the hotels to police them because they don't know who it is that's coming in to use their rooms," said Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis. "We've been monitoring it very closely, but it's very difficult to completely eliminate it."

Tuesday's victim, a slight 26-year-old who one witness initially believed was a child, had advertised massage services on Craigslist, the online classified service. A massage table was found in her room at the Marriott Copley.

Police believe the woman was struggling with her attacker when he shot her multiple times in the torso. She apparently was fighting the attacker as he tried to bind her hands with a plastic cord, according to law enforcement officials.

The man was captured on the Marriott's security cameras around 10 p.m., police said. About that time, Jane Greenberg, a New York woman staying with her teenage son three doors down from the crime scene, heard two loud shrieks. Rushing into the hallway, she saw a small woman collapsed on the floor, halfway out the room door.

"I asked several times, 'Are you OK'" Greenberg told WCVB-TV. 'Are you OK? Are you OK?' And no response whatsoever."

Greenberg said she heard loud bangs before the shrieking but had not thought they were gunshots. Greenberg called hotel security, which arrived immediately.

The victim, who was from New York but whose name was not released, was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The victim's family traveled to Boston yesterday to identify her body, police said.

Police said the crime appears linked to the robbery of the Las Vegas woman at the Westin April 10. That woman, who was bound with a plastic cord and gagged, according to a police report, was also robbed of a debit card, $800 in cash, and $250 in American Express gift cards. She had also advertised massage services on Craigslist, police said

[phragle]

sounds like somebody got a massage with an unhappy ending......

[DollaBill]

I guess being a hooker isn't all the glitz and glam it's made out to be.

BTW, I've partied pretty hard at that hotel and never killed a hooker. just for the record

[Offshoredrillin]

BTW, I've partied pretty hard at that hotel and never killed a hooker. just for the record
cuz he was bigger than you. :D

[Magic Medicine]

thats too bad

[X-Rated30]

BTW, I've partied pretty hard at that hotel and never killed a hooker. just for the record

Killed one??? I heard you never even hit bottom in one...:sifone:

[JupiterSunsation]

Killed one??? I heard you never even hit bottom in one...:sifone:

Bill may have been a bottom a few times though..........:sifone:

[Chris]

If I keep having to scratch things off of my bucket list, I'm going to end up leaving this earth having no real fun at all.

[JupiterSunsation]

If I keep having to scratch things off of my bucket list, I'm going to end up leaving this earth having no real fun at all.

Does that mean no hookers or no dead hookers?



I would love to see your bucket list......... I bet 1/2 the stuff would need a definition to explain what it actually is.

[DollaBill]

LOL douchebags:sifone:

[Chris]

I would love to see your bucket list......... I bet 1/2 the stuff would need a definition to explain what it actually is.

There's actually very little left. I've wasted no time at all in grabbing ahold of everything that's caught my interest. But I'm always on the lookout for an addition. ;)


Does that mean no hookers or no dead hookers?.

Well, all of it, in combination with the fancy hotels, that is.

[Sea-Dated]

cuz he was bigger than you. :D

:smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:

[clayinaustin]

Y'all are making jokes, but the sad truth is that a woman was killed. I don't care what she did for money, I don't judge. Her life may have been a train wreck, but no one deserves to die like that.

Sad, sad, story. :(

[JupiterSunsation]

Y'all are making jokes, but the sad truth is that a woman was killed. I don't care what she did for money, I don't judge. Her life may have been a train wreck, but no one deserves to die like that.

Sad, sad, story. :(

I didn't mean to make light of her death but rather the insanity of killing hookers in the hallway of a fancy hotel......




Guy robbed another one in Providence last night:


WARWICK, R.I.—An attempted robbery of a woman at a suburban Providence hotel may be linked to the slaying at an upscale Boston hotel of a woman who advertised massage on Craigslist, police said Friday.


A 26-year-old woman who also advertised massage services on Craigslist was bound with cord and held at gunpoint at the Holiday Inn Express at about 11:15 p.m. Thursday, Warwick Police Chief Stephen McCartney said. The assailant fled when the victim's husband returned to the room.

The husband briefly chased the assailant out of the room, but then returned to check on his wife, McCartney said. The woman told police she worked at The Cadillac Lounge, a Providence stripclub.

"She may have been involved in some sort of a sex-for-money transaction at the point in time when she had the confrontation with this alleged assailant," McCartney said.

The suspect's description matches that of a "person of interest" wanted for questioning in the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Julissa Brisman of New York City at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston on Tuesday night.

And the same person may have been involved in the robbery last week of a woman at the Westin Copley Hotel, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said.

That woman had also advertised massage services on Craigslist, the online classified service.

Police in Warwick, which is about 60 miles south of Boston, describe the suspect as a clean-cut white male, approximately 6-foot tall, 200-pounds, with blond hair, wearing a black coat and blue jeans.

Warwick police said they are working with Boston police on the case.

Police in Boston have said that they believe the victim at the Westin was involved in prostitution but that they are uncertain about Brisman.

[JupiterSunsation]

Busted..........22 year old Boston University Medical School student......

When police chasing alleged Craigslist killer Philip Markoff pulled him over Monday on Interstate 95, the Boston University medical school student was driving south with his fiancée to spend the night at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, authorities said today.

BU med student arrested in hotel killing, robbery

Police traced e-mail to suspect's home.

Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today that although the couple's destination piqued the interest of police, investigators have not developed a strong link between gambling and Markoff's alleged crimes. Markoff pleaded not guilty today to murder and armed robbery for allegedly attacking two women that he lured to Boston hotels through ads they posted on Craigslist.

"The question on the nature and the extent of his gambling, whether he is a casual, periodic, gambler or a regular gambler -- I don't know the answer to that question,'' Conley said. "That is a matter of investigation. As we explore various motives for the robberies, gambling is certainly a motive that we will look at. But there is no definitive information on that issue.''

Markoff's arrest capped a massive search for a clean-cut man who had allegedly been using the online classified ad service to prey on prostitutes and other women. His alleged crimes include what a prosecutor described as the "brutal murder" of Julissa Brisman, a 26-year-old masseuse who fought back against her attacker. Brisman was bashed in the head and shot three times last week on the 20th floor of the Marriott Copley Hotel, with the fatal bullet piercing her heart.

"The evidence that we have suggests that Julissa put up a pretty tough struggle and it's in the context of that struggle that she lost her life," Conley said.

Markoff, a second-year medical student, was charged with fatally shooting Brisman on April 14 and with the armed robbery and kidnapping of Trisha Leffler, 29, a prostitute who was tied up at the Westin Copley in the Back Bay on April 10.

Brisman had advertised her masseuse service on Craigslist; Leffler had also advertised through the website.

Markoff was arraigned today in Boston Municipal Court and ordered held without bail on a charge of murder. Judge Paul Leary also set bail of $250,000 in the Westin case.

Markoff, who appeared in court wearing a blue-and-white-striped shirt, khaki pants, and tasseled loafers, did not speak, but blinked and breathed rapidly as he watched the proceedings.

Conley said police had tracked Markoff through his contacts via e-mail with Brisman, noting that Markoff had opened up a new e-mail account the day before he allegedly killed her. Police put Markoff's home under surveillance, then saw Markoff, who matched the description of the killer, and "the case just begins to build from that," Conley said.

A search of his apartment yielded a firearm, restraints, and duct tape, and other items that authorities were not prepared to disclose, Conley said.

"He probably thought he was going to get away with it. He thought he was too smart for us," said Conley, who credited both high-tech techniques and "shoe-leather" police work with the success of the investigation.

Markoff's attorney said his client had "nothing to hide."

"He has the support of his family. He's bearing up," said John Salsberg. Salsberg also said, "He has no gambling problem that I'm aware of."

This morning, Markoff's fiancée, Megan McAllister, defended him in an e-mail she sent to ABC News, according to "Good Morning America's" website.

"Unfortunately you were given wrong information as was the public," McAllister wrote in the e-mail. "All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly! A police officer in Boston (or many) is trying to make big bucks by selling this false story to the TV stations. What else is new?? Philip is an intelligent man who is just trying to live his life so if you could leave us alone we would greatly appreciate it. We expect to marry in August and share a wonderful, meaningful life together."



Philip Markoff at a BU Medical School ceremony in 2007. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)


Markoff was charged in two crimes whose brazen nature and swanky locale shocked Boston residents, drew national attention, and exposed the seamy world of prostitution fostered by the anonymity of the Internet.

A similar attack occurred in a Warwick, R.I., hotel Thursday. Police there said they were confident their case was linked to the Boston cases.

"Because of the critical nature of the ongoing investigation, there will be no comment on specific areas of evidentiary interest," said Warwick Police Chief Stephen M. McCartney. "We remain confident that there is strong connection here with the Boston incidents."

Conley again asked other women who advertise services on Craigslist to step forward if they have been victimized by Markoff.

"Our priority is to hold him accountable for each and every one of these crimes, not to hold you accountable for offering services on Craigslist," he said.

[03darkshadow]

cuz he was bigger than you. :D



ha!



but thats bad about the girl.

[Perlmudder]

wow... scary ****.

[DonziGirl]

Glad the caught him

[cuda]

There's actually very little left. I've wasted no time at all in grabbing ahold of everything that's caught my interest. But I'm always on the lookout for an addition. ;)



Well, all of it, in combination with the fancy hotels, that is.

At least you have your standards, and your moral compass has checked to be accurate.

[cuda]

Y'all are making jokes, but the sad truth is that a woman was killed. I don't care what she did for money, I don't judge. Her life may have been a train wreck, but no one deserves to die like that.

Sad, sad, story. :(

I agree. No matter what she did, she has a mom out there somewhere who doesn't think her death should be the butt of a joke.

[Dude! Sweet!]

You know what Woody Allen said... "If it bends it's funny, if it breaks, it's not funny..." Well that and "You kiss better than your mom."