Family members of suspected Craigslist killer Phillip Markoff visited him in jail yesterday and it doesn't sound like his outlook has brightened since his attempted suicide on Thursday. After being visited by his brother and sister-in-law (as well as his parents, pictured right), jail sources say that Markoff told family members to "forget about him," "move to California," and that "there is more coming out." Markoff did not receive a visit from fiancee Megan McCallister, who is standing by him and continuing plans for their August wedding. McCallister gave reporters the finger when she spotted them outside her parents' Little Silver, NJ home. Reporters did get a chance to talk to the mother of victim Julissa Brisman, who told them, "The feeling of losing my daughter in this way and the pain she must have felt will haunt me for the rest of my life." Meanwhile officials in Rhode Island said they are close to charging Markoff for a similar Craigslist holdup in a Holiday Inn room where his fingerprints were found on the wall.
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