document: Vegas call girl recalls run-in with Philip Markoff A streetwise Las Vegas escort told the Herald yesterday she came face to face with accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff before his Hub hotel crime spree , but likely saved her own life by slamming the door in his face . The rattled Sin City call girl said Markoff arrived at their rendezvous at a Waltham hotel in early 2009 claiming he was a cop , but she quickly spotted his phony badge and plastic zip ties . When an erotic masseuse was later murdered in Boston , she knew she dodged death . `` It could have been me , '' said Amber , whose last name is being withheld by the Herald . `` I answered the door . I was fully dressed , of course . I greeted him , gave him a hug . He was kind of , like , weird . He was skinny , too . He did n't act happy to see me , '' she said . `` I stepped back . I said , ` Can I see your ID ? ' He pulled out his ID , then he pulled out something that was supposed to look like a badge . I saw that he had those plastic handcuffs . '' That 's when she quickly shut the door . `` I was kind of like , wow ... . Luckily , I got out unscathed , '' she said . Markoff fled , and she called hotel security and changed rooms -- but she never called the cops . Her telephone number is one of dozens Markoff , 24 , dialed from prepaid TracFones , including the number of Julissa Brisman , 25 , who was killed at the Marriott Copley Place on April 14 , 2009 , newly released law enforcement records show . A Herald review of Markoff 's records show the former Boston University medical student dialed dozens of phone numbers linked to online ads for escorts , strippers and other erotic services . Amber 's phone is among those listed , records show . Prosecutors said this week there 's no doubt Markoff was in the early stages of a serial killer rampage targeting ladies of the night in hotels from the Hub to Rhode Island . Markoff committed suicide in August while awaiting trial at the Nashua Street Jail . Amber said she was suspicious of a `` cold '' and `` weird '' Markoff because he said he was from out of town but provided a local phone number . She said she did n't buy the cop story and refused to let him in her room . `` He actually tried to rob me ... . I said , ` You 're not a -LRB- expletive -RRB- cop . ' I basically shot him down , '' she said . `` I 'm 5 -LRB- feet -RRB- , 9 -LRB- inches -RRB- . I gave it back to him . He told me he was going to go downstairs and get a female cop to search me ... . I was like , send her up . Send her up . I have nothing to hide ... . He tried to push his way into my room . '' Around the time she met Markoff , Amber said escorts were leaving warnings on message boards about a man claiming to be a cop who tied up women and robbed them in New York , Boston and Connecticut . `` He was doing that for a long time . We knew of him for years . He started that when he was younger , '' she said . `` He was really confident in the fact that no one was going to tell on him . He was just so brazen , nobody actually reported anything until someone got killed . '' Amber told the Herald the scores of escort calls Markoff made suggest he was `` obsessed '' with robbing working girls , who sometimes carry thousands of dollars when they travel . `` I would n't be surprised if he paid for medical school by robbing girls , '' she said . `` He was hooked . He probably had a whole lifestyle around robbing girls . ''
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