The Boston Globe states that the suspect is a Boston University med student named Philip Markoff, age 22. Here’s the Facebook link for Phillip Markoff:

Facebook of Phillip Markoff

Markoff was engaged and he and his fiancee had a website together: www.megan-philip.com.

Phil Markoff and his fiancee met in undergrad at the University of Albany in New York. According to their site, she was a senior at the time and Markoff was a sophomore. The couple volunteered together at a nearby medical center, doing scut work in the Emergency Room. Their first date was on November 11, 2005. They were engaged in May, 2008 and were set to be married on August 14 this year on the beach next to McLoone’s Pier House in Long Branch, NJ.
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Screen-capture of megan-philip.com. Click to enlarge.

People who go on crime sprees often experience a specific stressor - some event that ’sets them off.’ It isn’t that they snap - it’s more that something coalesces inside the spree criminal. Could stresses related to a relationship or impending nuptials have set off the so-called “Craigslist killer?” That’s just one of many questions people will probably ask about the accused, Phil Markoff. You’d think after much more prolific and evil criminals like Andrew Cunanan and before him, Ted Bundy, that people would learn that violent criminals come in all sorts of packages. Even in the guise of a beefy, blond med student with a GQ smile.

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