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Also appearing in court was Philip Markoff, a Boston University medical student, arraigned in the murder of Julissa Brisman, a 26-year-old masseuse, who advertised her services on Craigslist. CBS' Daniel Sieberg could not get Markoff's alleged motive straight. Initially he reported police allegations that the student is "a violent predator who stalked women in cold blood" but later that he "met her in a hotel room and killed her in a botched robbery." Sources for NBC's Jeff Rossen and ABC's Lisa Fletcher sided with the latter explanation. Both correspondents were told that money, not sex, was his motive: he needed to rob to pay gambling debts.
Sieberg and Rossen both concentrated on the crime itself, which is, after all, a local Massachusetts story and has little business being covered on a network newscast. ABC's Fletcher sought the national angle, repeating the same worries that her colleague Barbara Pinto had covered last month when the Cook County Sheriff in Illinois criticized Craigslist for facilitating prostitution. Brisman may have advertised massage but she placed her classified under "erotic services."
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