The Craigslist Killer // 528

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 2009, a short-lived spree of attacks against women in Boston and Rhode Island had the Eastern Seaboard on edge. But when a suspect was finally identified, the revelation was almost too bizarre to believe: a clean-cut, promising medical student with a seemingly perfect home life. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a dual existence darker and more calculated than anyone who knew him could have possibly imagined. These are the crimes of the Craigslist Killer, otherwise known as Philip Markoff.

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0:00.0	What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.
0:18.7	And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.
0:22.2	Thank you so much for tuning in today. Today, we have one of those cases that I'm sure we have all
0:27.9	at least heard of, maybe we've watched that lifetime movie that came out after this case.
0:34.3	But it was only recently that both Heath and I actually fully dove into it.
0:38.6	And it is just as crazy as I thought it was going to be.
0:41.8	And honestly, this guy was so unsuspecting.
0:44.7	Like, you really, it's hard to believe that he did what he did.
0:48.6	Yeah, I think he makes for such a fascinating character in that way.
0:52.1	Because then as you kind of start like peeling back
0:54.8	the layers, you see some signs and you can kind of understand it a little bit more, but somebody
1:01.0	on the outside would never have guests. Like, it's truly so wild. So thank you guys so much for
1:06.2	being here with us today. I also wanted to say that recently we released a couple new bonus episodes.
1:11.9	We came out with Lisa Harnum, which is a crazy Australian case, and then another Australian
1:19.3	case on Marion Barter, which is a huge, huge mystery. Check those out along with over
1:25.6	130 other bonus episodes over on
1:28.8	Patreon and Apple Podcasts.
1:31.0	Yes, head over to patreon.com slash
1:33.3	Going West Podcast or you can just subscribe
1:35.5	right there on Apple.
1:37.3	All right, guys, this is episode
1:39.7	528 of Going West,
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