The Copley Killer Drama has come to an end. It has been a wild ride since 2009, with Pineappleope bringing you second to second details of the long an arduous journey…
The former medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist used his medical training to take the easy way out and killed himself at the Boston jail where he was awaiting trial.
Philip Markoff, 24, a former Boston University student, pleaded not guilty in the fatal shooting of Julissa Brisman, of New York City, and the armed robbery of a Las Vegas woman. Both crimes happened at Boston hotels within the span of four days in April 2009. Rhode Island prosecutors also accused him of attacking a hot stripper that week.
Law enforcement sources told Pineappleope.com that Markoff used his “medical training” to cut his life short, stabbing himself in major arteries in the leg and neck with a pen (ball-point) before putting a plastic bag over his head.
Jail officials found Markoff unresponsive in his cell Sunday morning in the Nashua Street Jail, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said in a statement Sunday, and he was pronounced completely dead at about 10:15 a.m.
“Using a pen to commit suicide was unexpected since for the most part Markoff was notoriously an internet user.” – Jake Couture, Nashua Street Jail Guard, 3rd Shift
Preparations commence for August. August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with a length of 31 days.
This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sex-filled mating month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.
About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.
Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC, because he enjoyed the mating month, giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus, who did not take a day from February.
BLOW YOUR MIND WITH THIS FACT: In common years no other month starts on the same day of the week as August, though in leap years February starts on the same day.
Pretend you are multi-lingual:
- In Filipino, the month is called agosto
- In Lithuanian, the month is called rugpjūtis
- In Turkish, the month is called Ağustos
- In Malay, the month is known as Ogos
- In Dhivehi, the month is called Augastu
Symbols of August:
August’s birthstone is the peridot or onyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy (The Heroin Flower), meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family.
“Personal excitement about the Air Chair is not required because if you have had the opportunity to ride one you already have it, if you have not ridden one yet you will immediately become an advocate after your first flight.”
Independence day falls on July 4th this year, for most Americans and Jessica Simpson, it is this coming Sunday.
For only US citizens this is a Federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. While US citizens don’t have to work on the 4th, you will still see illegal migrants manning hot dog stands and crushing lemons for fresh lemonade.
A few observations:
- July 4 is the 185th day of the year
- On July 4th there will be 180 days remaining until the end of the year.
- The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.
- The terms 4th of July or Fourth of July usually refer to Independence Day in the United States
Lookin at Lucky wins the second Ultimate Horse Race of the year. Super Saver failed to meet expectations and blew a possible Triple Crown.
In honor of the Preakness, we have a music video about how womens rights have improved as the use of horses for transport has declined. It’s a cartoon and your children might enjoy it.
Comments heard around the globe during the Preakness and after watching the Video
- Super Saver Fucked me out of a million dollars now what am I supposed to live for?
- If lemonade really comes from horses I probably won’t drink it again
A minor ski accident destroys an older mans life, for the day. Really great ski footage that makes you feel like your REALLY there pulling off daffys and helicopters. Personally, I felt like James Bond for a minute
Viewers React:
- I would have just killed him and buried him in the snow.
- Fake, there’s no snow in Australia.
- Here’s proof… All Skiers= Assholes – SnoBoardin’ FTW
- typical skiers, they’re either think they own the hill or they act like little pussies
Longtime reader, first time question submission. Any chance this picture (Click here for the picture) could this be considered SFW? I was terminated from my job and now I have to collect unemployment all from this image. Keep up the good journalism.
-Paul C.
Dear Paul,
Thanks for the question, Paul. Due to the ‘possible’ nsfw nature of this image, we had to post it ‘after the jump’. You will also find our answer…
It was just another winter night in Stephenville, Texas, when Rich Jones, a 30-year aviation veteran, saw something that defied all logic—an eerily silent, mile-wide craft ringed in lights that would “rearrange themselves” racing across the sky at what he estimated to be 3,000 miles per hour.
“I don’t know if it was a biblical experience or somebody from a different universe, but it was definitely not from around these parts,” Allen told a reporter from the Empire-Tribune after the sighting on Jan. 8, 2008. Similar reports poured in from across Erath County.
The Stephenville Lights incident wasn’t a onetime event—another mass sighting followed in October 2008, and individual reports from the area still trickle in. This corner of Texas along with the eastern Nevada desert are fast emerging as the U.S.’s newest UFO “hot spots”—places with the best odds of a spotting. Similarly active places exist around the globe, with some even attracting a new kind of tourist.
These days, it seems people can’t get enough of the UFO phenomena. Television shows such as the History Channel’s UFO Hunters and alternative radio programs like Coast to Coast AM—where an estimated three million listeners tune in each night to hear from hardworking UFO investigators, among other thought-provoking interviewees—are more popular than ever.
Sightings, too, are on the rise, according to MUFON, or the Mutual UFO Network, which has more than 3,000 members in 25 countries and 750 trained field investigators worldwide. The 41-year-old organization is one of the go-to places to report a sighting; it receives some 400 a month in the U.S. alone.
“Of course, 80 percent of these sightings can be explained. But 20 percent are truly unidentified objects, and those are the ones that will make your hair curl,” says MUFON’s international director, Clifford Clift.
Believing the time is right, even the famed SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute is conducting its first-ever public conference this year devoted to the age-old question: are we alone? SETIcon, slated for Aug. 13–15, in Santa Clara, Calif., will also unveil the institute’s newest scientific advances in its ongoing search for intelligent life from other planets.