The wedding is still on.
The fiancee of accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff insists she’s standing by her man, and friends say the nuptials haven’t been canceled.
“Philip did not commit this crime,” Megan McAllister told People magazine. “Unfortunately, somebody else did and needs to be penalized.
“Philip was set up,” said McAllister, whose beau, a fellow med student, was placed on suicide watch in a Boston jail yesterday.
Her dad, Jim, told reporters: “She’s still confident in Phil. Other than that, we’re saying a lot of prayers.”
He spoke outside his Little Silver, NJ, home, where Megan, 25, has been secluded since Markoff’s arrest Monday.
Megan’s confidence could be rocked by news that a handgun found by cops at Markoff’s apartment has been identified as the pistol used to murder New York masseuse Julissa Brisman, 26, on April 14 in a Boston hotel room.
The gun was hidden in a hollowed-out copy of the medical textbook Gray’s Anatomy.
Markoff’s fingerprints were on a plastic restraint found on Brisman’s wrist, sources told Fox25 News in Boston. His fingerprints were also found on a staircase rail in a Warwick, RI, hotel, where he is suspected of the April 16 attempted gunpoint robbery of a stripper, Fox25 reported.
In addition to Brisman’s murder, Markoff also has been charged with the April 10 gunpoint robbery of escort Trisha Leffler in a Boston hotel room.
In all three attacks, the women arranged to meet a man via Craigslist, the classified-ad Web site. Yesterday, Boston prosecutors placed an ad on the online marketplace trying to find women who may have been victimized by Markoff. The ad was posted in the “erotic services” section.
When cops busted Markoff, they found the handgun, panties belonging to the victims and plastic wrist restraints. Police also found $800 in cash, $250 worth of gift cards and a bank card allegedly stolen from Leffler, court records state.
McAllister and fellow Boston University student Markoff, 23, plan to wed Aug. 14 on the Jersey Shore.
Willie Forte, the singer-keyboardist of the B Street Band — a Bruce Springsteen tribute band hired by the couple to play that day — said, “As of today, the wedding is still on.”
In Boston yesterday, Markoff acted bizarrely during a jailhouse visit from The Post.
Pale, bleary-eyed and disheveled, the accused killer nervously pulled the collar of his T-shirt up to his lower lip so that it covered his neck.
“I can’t say anything to you,” Markoff said.
Soon afterward, he was moved into the jail’s segregated unit, where guards can constantly watch him, because “shoelace marks were found on his neck,” law-enforcement sources told ABCNews.com.
Markoff’s lawyer, John Salsberg, rushed to the jail. “The transition from being free to being incarcerated is very difficult for him,” he said.
Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton in Little Silver, NJ