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Lauren Wright Crime scene science May 12, 2009

The man believed to be the “Craigslist killer” was a 20-year old man named Philip Markoff, who lured women to his house by putting out ads on Craigslist, one of these ads calling for a babysitter for a 5 year old child. After being both seen in person and seen on a security camera in a Boston hotel, the killer was identified as a man in his 20s, with blond hair. Markoff’s fingerprint was found at a hotel where a prostitute was being held at gunpoint. Additionally, one of the victim’s underwear and a gun were found at Markoff’s home. In order to identify the fingerprints, one could run the fingerprint through a database to find matches, or if Markoff was already a suspect, his fingerprints could be taken and compared to the one found at the hotel. DNA evidence could be used to discover who the underwear belonged to, and ballistics tests can determine if the gun found in Markoff’s home matched the bullets that killed the victims.