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Providence, R.I. » A fingerprint has been found linking a medical student accused of killing a masseuse in Boston to a hotel near Providence where another woman claims she was attacked, a law enforcement official said Friday.
The official told The Associated Press that Philip Markoff's fingerprint was found on a wall of the Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, where a stripper has said she was tied up and held at gunpoint by a man she met through the Craigslist classified ads Web site. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case.
The official also said Markoff sent text messages from the hotel but said he didn't have information about what Markoff said or to whom he wrote.
Markoff, a Boston University medical student, is charged in the April 14 killing of masseuse Julissa Brisman, a 25-year-old New York City resident who advertised on Craigslist, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place hotel, in the historic Back Bay district. He also is charged in a robbery at a nearby hotel of another masseuse police say he met through the site.
He has not been charged in Rhode Island, where police and prosecutors have been investigating potential links to the Boston cases.
Markoff has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer, John Salsberg, has said he is innocent of the charges.