Residents of the sprawling 800-unit High Point apartment complex where Markoff rented a third-floor flat earlier this year mostly described him as an average Joe, but several said there was something not quite right about him.
"The guy was friendly enough. He'd say hello when you saw him and he supposedly had a girlfriend," said John Uva, who has lived in the building for two years.
"But he was never really around much, and there was a creepy factor to it."
Mike Dyer, 27, who lives on the second floor, said he was stunned to learn he was living "right under" the accused killer.