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A Boston University medical student accused of robbing women who advertised erotic services on Craigslist, killing one of them, had items belonging to both victims in his apartment, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.Philip Markoff is charged with killing a masseuse at the Boston Marriott Copley Place hotel, in the historic Back Bay district, on April 14. He also is charged in the robbery of a woman at another Boston hotel four days earlier.CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace reports law enforcement official told CBS News police found a pair of pantyhose believed to belong to one of the victims hidden in Markoff s apartment in Quincy, south of Boston. The law enforcement source also told CBS News police found a handgun hidden in a hollowed-out copy of the medical textbook Gray s Anatomy for the Human Body, confirming what the Boston Globe reported earlier stanley website this afternoon. Law enforcement authorities were doing ballistics tests on the gun to see if it s the murder weapon.Investigators are looking into gambling as the possible motivation. Markoff was on his stanley flask way to the Foxwoods casino in Connecticut with his fiancee and more than $1,000 cash when he was arrested on Monday on Interstate 95. A spokeswoman told CBS News Markoff has visited Foxwoods before and that the casino is cooperating with investigators. Markoff, 23, is accused in the death of Julissa Brisman, of New York City, a masseuse who was found dea stanley us d in the doorway Ocrz Death toll from Joplin tornado now 142
The wife of an FSU professor died in Wednesday s knife attack in London,Universityofficials confirmed Thursday afternoon.The woman, whose name has not yet been released, was the wife of Florida State psychology professor Richard Wagner. She died on scene after the attack. Five other pedestrians were hurt.Officers arrested one suspect, a 19-year-old Norwegian national, shortly after the attack. Police called the incident spontaneous and said they believe the attacker sele adidas samba cted victims at random. Per the Associated Press, a local police official said there was no evidence of radicalization in the suspect arrested Wednesday.A statement from FSU s director of international programs James Pitts said the couple had planned to return to Tallahassee Thursday, one day after the fatal attack. There are no words to express out heartache air max 98 over this te nike dunk rrible tragedy, said FSU President John Thrasher. We are shocked that such senseless violence has touched our own FSU family, and we will do all we can to assist Professor Wagner and his loved ones. A statement from the university confirmed Wagner had beenteachinga summer session based in London.Authorities said Thursday that the attack was not terrorism, but rather triggered by mental health issues. BACKGROUND | Full coverage of the London stabbing attack-----