For pickups...I know some guys think prostitutes are 'expendable' but he bashed a lady in the head, this could happen to anyone who goes on a date to a private local with a stranger.
SHERRILL, N.Y. -- In the neighborhood where he grew up, people today said they were shocked that authorities have charged Philip Markoff as the Craigslist killer. In their recollections, he was a nice, smart boy with loving parents.
"All of them were terrific people. It's unbelievable. I don't know, I don't have a bad thing to say about them," said Dorothy Guider, 53, who said she was friends with Markoff's mother, Susan Carroll, and his stepfather, Gary Carroll, when they lived in the neighborhood. "They were loving and caring people. They would do anything for anybody,"
She described Markoff as "intelligent, very intelligent, sweet, nice."
"If he made a mistake – or who knows what happened? – it's just sad," she said.
The comfortably middle-class neighborhood on Thurston Street consists of about 20 homes, Colonials with two-car garages built about 20 years ago. The Carrolls lived in the neighborhood until about four years ago when they split up, neighbors said.
A man answering the door at Gary Carroll's house in another part of town told a reporter, "I have nothing to say. I don't even want your card." The executive director of the Oneida Community Mansion House in neighboring Oneida, the apartment building where Susan Carroll lives, said she was unavailable.
Terry Law, another neighbor on Thurston, taught Markoff in first grade and remembered, "He was smart, very smart. Good at math and science."
"They found a semiautomatic, they said on TV today. Oh God, he was a skinny, little towhead blonde boy in my class," she said.
Markoff's high school yearbook showed that he was an honors graduate who was in the history club and on the golf team. He also had been a member of the bowling team, according to other yearbooks.
He listed his future plans as "Major in pre-med at SUNY Albany." And he said his favorite saying came from a "Mr. Morris" and was "Go play in traffic."
In a section where seniors were allowed to leave their own personal messages, Markoff wrote, "I bequeath my poker playing skills to Andy Finley, so he won't lose his dad's house."
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go watch the video...he was described as a 'clean cut medical student'