Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns, True Crime Podcast.

Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.

There's a start on your underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the dark side of the Athens of America, Boston, Massachusetts.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.

If you need anything in terms of investigative services,

feel free to contact me at Impact.

If I can't help you personally,

I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.

All right, guys.

Welcome back to Boston Confidential.

I hope everybody had a great Christmas and a happy New Year's, but we're back at it.

You need to jump back in the time machine with me again.

It's about 11 years, and this is the case of Philip Markoff, the Craigslist killer, and this occurred in 2009.

This case actually seems like yesterday, but I guess it was a while ago now.

This is a strange case.

I've never been able to figure this kid out, and I call him a kid mostly because I'm old,

but he was, I believe, 23 when these crimes occurred,

and it was actually a spree of crimes.

And let me just start by telling you a little bit about Philip Markov's background, and we'll go from there.

When these crimes occurred, Markov was a medical student at Boston University, But before that, he was born and raised in suburban Syracuse. Actually, he was born, it's about 40 minutes from Syracuse and about 30 minutes from Utica. So he was in that stretch from Syracuse to Utica. And the only thing I really know about that area is,

it's very rural, and they get a crap ton of snow. Any place that gets more snow than Boston is on

my radar, and I know the metropolitan Syracuse area gets more snow than Boston. So,

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