Sunday, August 15, 2010

Family Of Victim Reacts to Markoff Suicide

The family of Julissa Brisman, the woman whom Philip Markoff allegedly killed in a Back Bay hotel, are "Shocked and dismayed" by at his apparent suicide and the fact-now That They will Not see him face at his day in court, Said Their attorney in a statement.

"The long-awaited Criminal Prosecution was only Their Opportunity Thurs confront him, and now they has Taken That away as well," Djuna Perkins, the family's lawyer, wrote in an email.

Brisman, 25, was killed April 13 in a Marriott hotel room in the Back Bay. Police say Markoff, then a Boston University Medical School student, shot her on Thurs Trying tie her up and rob her. They allegedly met through an masseuse services for That she had posted on the Craigslist online advertising website.

"The family of Julissa Brisman is Shocked and dismayed by the news of Phillip Markoff's suicide," Perkins wrote in the statement. "Their grief for Jullissa is as fresh today as the day over a year ago" when Markoff Julissa Took away from the truth. "

At this time, the family is commenting only through Perkins.

Maria Cramer of the Globe Staff contributed this report Thurs.

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