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By Steve Huff in assault, homicide, robbery
Monday, Jun. 22 2009 @ 1:49PM

CBS report about Markoff's arrest, containing the inexplicably ubiquitous 'profiler' Pat Brown, to boot!

I think the only way I'm going to keep crime blogging and keep my sanity - what's left of it - is if I just write what I'm thinking. I haven't always done that on my crime blogs. I've certainly done it elsewhere, but the overall subject matter here is so serious - and I am frequently not very serious - that I've worked hard to keep a line between my inner dialogue and what I actually publish here. I've done this so as not to seem disrespectful of the subject matter, for the most part.

That's too much work.

So here goes - I'm updating you about Phil Markoff, the guy who apparently owns the term "Craigslist killer," even though he hasn't been convicted of anything, but I will be very frank: I fucking hate this story. If I never had to write another word about Markoff, it would be too soon. It's the seedy underbelly of it all that gets to me, I guess.

But I covered the story heavily when he was first arrested, complete with exclusives, so I feel duty-bound to report to you that ABC reported that Markoff, looking every inch the yuppie med student he was prior to his arrested, "SHOUTED" his not guilty plea in a Massachusetts courtroom yesterday. Because shouting shows that you really, really mean it, I guess.

What do I think of Markoff? I have no idea. I know I uncovered plenty of evidence that he might be leading a decidedly creepy double-life, but double lives do not a killer make. Still, the evidence so far is pretty compelling (surveillance video, etc), and it just doesn't look good for choirboy/med student sex addict Markoff.

That hasn't stopped someone from starting a "Phil Markoff is Innocent Until Proven Guilty" Facebook page, and bully for them.

Facebook pages, as we all know, will one day save the world and all the innocent baby seals, etc. If Markoff is convicted, expect a "Phil Markoff was Railroaded and it's all Obama's Fault" Facebook page to go up post-haste, as well.