Philip Markoff (Jake McDorman) is a top of his class medical school student engaged to Megan McAllister (Agnes Bruckner). The movie depicts their life and building their relationship bond, but, also at the same time showing there maybe some more deep down in Philips past. Philip has some deep dark secrets he's been able to hide from his wife, he likes to meet women from Craigslist that advertise for erotic services and tie them up, humiliate them and rob them in hotel rooms. On top of that he also has gambling problems and anger issues. He's been able to hide all this and get away with it until one of his hotel meetings goes wrong and ends up killing the girl he is only suppose to be robbing.
William Baldwin plays Detective Bennett who is tasked with finding this so called Craigslist killer, the only lead he has to go on are fuzzy pictures of average Joe in Boston. The break he needs to link Philip to the crimes comes when Digital Forensics is able to pull a real name and IP address from the Craigslist name used to meet these girls. After being under surviellance and attempting to leave the Boston area, he is arrested and booked into jail. His fiance Megan can't believe what is happening, how can this happen to a straight-A popular med school student. She fights for him and helps him plea his not guility that they obviously have the wrong man.
When the detectives search their aparment and find a hidden 9mm, handcuffs, ducktape and sixteen pairs of panties hidden under the bed, they find their evidence and she finally finds that she has to admit that he is who they say he is, a mentally disturbed killer. Having finally come to terms she visits him at jail and confronts him and finally calls off the engagement and leaves him. One year after their wedding should of took place, Philip successfully commits suicide in his jail cell. That's the story pretty quick and dirty, don't want to spoil everything in case this movie hits dvd or you want to look it up on Lifetime and catch a re-running of it.
After doing some digging i'm really surprised at how closely this movie actually followed the real events that took place from 2009 - 2010. You can read about the real Philip Markoff on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Markoff and Boston Fox's website http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/report%3A-'craigslist-killer'-philip-markoff-commits-suicide-in-jail. There's a couple more based on real event movies coming to Lifetime in the next few weeks that were previews during this one that look pretty good and after seeing how well this one was actually done I may just have to put them onto the DVR to watch.
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