( CNN ) -- Family members of Phillip Markoff visited him in jail Friday for the first time since his arraignment on murder charges connected to the slaying of a woman he may have met through a Craigslist online ad . The parents , brother and sister-in-law of accused killer Philip Markoff visited him in jail on Friday . Markoff 's parents , brother , and sister-in-law visited him Friday , having to get through a throng of media members who gathered near the Boston , Massachusetts , jail . Richard Markoff and Susan Haynes arrived early in the afternoon , CNN affiliate WCVB reported . Markoff 's parents stayed at the jail for about two hours and left without making any comments to media , the affiliate reported . Markoff 's brother and sister-in-law also visited him on Friday , the affiliate reported . John Salsberg , Markoff 's attorney , addressed the crowd of reporters Friday and said he was speaking on behalf of the family . `` They love their son very much . They are supportive of him , that 's what they would say if they were speaking themselves , '' he said . It is not yet known if Megan McAllister , Markoff 's fiancee , would visit him in jail , but in an e-mail sent to ABC News , she said police have the wrong man and `` was set up . '' `` Unfortunately , you were given wrong information as was the public , '' she wrote . `` All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly ! '' Markoff , 23 , a second-year student at Boston University 's School of Medicine , is charged with killing Julissa Brisman , who lived in New York , April 14 at Boston 's Copley Marriott Hotel . Police have said Brisman , a model , advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist , a popular online classifieds service . They say Markoff may have met her through the online site . Prosecutors say Brisman sustained blunt head trauma and said the she was shot three times at close range . One of the bullets passed through her heart , killing her , prosecutors said . Markoff is also charged in connection with the April 10 robbery of Trisha Leffler , 29 , at a Westin Hotel in Boston , another woman he allegedly met on Craigslist . Leffler was robbed of $ 800 in cash and $ 250 in American Express gift cards , police reports said . Prosecutors said she was bound and held at gunpoint . Brisman 's mother , Carmen Guzman , released a statement Friday about her devastation . `` 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 , '' Guzman said . `` She wo n't live to see her dreams . We will hold Julissa in our hearts every day . ''
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