BOSTON MED STUDENT CHARGED IN CRAIGSLIST KILLINGS

Now this is just too bizarre:

He's the picture of pride in a photo that seems to capture the excitement of a young man on the cusp of a medical career. Grinning broadly, he stands with fellow medical students at a ceremony at Boston University Medical School, as a doctor helps him into the white coat that will mark the beginning of his formal training.

To many of his friends, the photo encapsulates the image they had of Philip H. Markoff: clean-cut, friendly, smart. Yesterday, those friends were broadsided by a shockingly different description of their friend, as the fugitive "predator" police had sought in the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old woman he had allegedly contacted on the "erotic services" section of Craigslist. He was also charged with attacking a second woman in Boston, whom he had also allegedly contacted off Craigslist and is a suspect in the attempted robbery of a prostitute in Rhode Island.