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PREPPY BUST IN CRAIGSLIST SLAY

The man suspected as the “Craigslist killer” of a Manhattan masseuse was identified last night as a preppy premed student who grew up in a prominent upstate family.

Phil Markoff, 22 — whose father is a Syracuse dentist, mom a school administrator, and brother a Great Neck, LI, computer programmer — was busted after cops stopped him on Interstate 95 in Walpole, south of Boston.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said authorities had the Boston University student under surveillance “for days.”

“We are very, very happy to have this man off the street in such a timely way,” he said.

Markoff, a 2007 SUNY Albany graduate, is originally from Syracuse but now lives in suburban Quincy, Mass. He’s engaged to New Jersey native Megan McAllister — and the fairytale-handsome couple has a lavish Web site with plans for an expensive wedding Aug. 14 in Long Branch, NJ. But now he’s charged with killing Julissa Brisman, 29, who was found shot dead Tuesday at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.

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Brisman advertised massage services on Craigslist and had a table set up in the hotel room, cops said.

Suffolk (Mass.) District Attorney Daniel Conley said Markoff is also charged with kidnapping and armed robbery in a separate case involving a Boston prostitute he allegedly hooked up with via Craigslist. Police said that from the start, they had suspected that Brisman’s killer was connected to the hooker’s robbery at the Westin Copley in Boston.

Authorities believe Brisman’s death may also be connected to the attempted robbery Thursday in Warwick, RI, of an ex-Vegas stripper by a man responding to an ad she’d posted on Craigslist.

She was held at gunpoint before her husband scared off the attacker.

“[Markoff] was kind of a creep — he gave off a creepy vibe,” said a former SUNY Albany pal who asked not to be identified. “A female friend also felt like he was creepy.”

But Melody Greenberg, who was in his medical fraternity at SUNY, was stunned.

“He wasn’t awkward (as some science majors can be), and was friends with everybody,” she told The Post in an e-mail. “I thought he was a kind, funny guy who was going to make a great doctor, and I’m going to stick to that image of him until things are proven otherwise.”

In a series of photos released by Warwick cops hours before the arrest, a man is seen in a dark jacket with a baseball cap pulled low, mostly hiding his face.

The surveillance photos were similar to those released from the Boston Marriott.