Campus Killings
AbJack Entertainment
104 episodes
Campus Killings is a Bi-Weekly true crime podcast that debuts on September 17, 2022, and releases new episodes every other Saturday. Campus Killings is hosted by Dr. Meghan Sacks and Dr. Amy Shlosberg (Women & Crime, and Direct Appeal podcasts). In each episode, Meghan and Amy dive into some of the most shocking and tragic murders to happen on school grounds, and provide their analysis as both Educators and trained Criminologists. They discuss what went wrong, and what could have been done differently to prevent the tragic outcome. As criminologists, Meghan and Amy teach, research, write and podcast about victims, offenders and the issues surrounding our criminal justice system-and each have over 20 years of experience working in the system in various capacities such as law enforcement, mental health and offender reentry. Campus Killings is researched and written by Jessica Bettencourt (DNA: ID, and Missing Persons podcasts) It's produced by Mike Morford of AbJack Entertainment (Criminology, and The Murder in My Family podcasts) Follow Campus Killings on social media- On Facebook: facebook.com/Campuskillings On Twitter: twitter.com/CampusKillings
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Trent DiGiuro
Episode 85 Trent DiGiuro University of Kentucky's star football player, Trent DiGiuro, was celebrating his 21st birthday on July 17, 1994. As he and friends sat on their porch, sharing a beer, Trent was suddenly shot…
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Kendrick Johnson Minisode
Episode 84 Kendrick Johnson Minisode In the winter of 2013, 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found dead inside a rolled up gym mat at Lowndes High School, in Valdosta, Georgia. The police investigation concluded he'd…
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Elizabeth 'Lizzi' Marriott
Episode 83 Elizabeth 'Lizzi' Marriott In 2012, University of New Hampshire sophomore, Lizzi Marriott, went missing after visiting a new friend she'd met at work for a video game hangout. The massive subsequent search…
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Campus Lounge: Campus Carry Policies
Episode 82 Campus Lounge: Campus Carry Policies In our first edition of Campus Lounge discussions, Megan sits down with one of our listeners: Melissa, and they discuss campus carry policies and laws, and how they are…
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Katy Benoit
Episode 81 Katy Benoit University of Idaho graduate student, Katy Benoit, reported her professor for sexual harassment following the dissolution of their consensual relationship. She told school officials he'd…
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Brian Shaffer Minisode
Episode 80 Brian Shaffer Minisode 27-year-old Brian Shaffer was attending the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 2006. He had a seemingly bright future ahead of him, but after bar hopping with a friend on…
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Introducing The Consult: Real FBI Profilers — The Tylenol Murders
Introducing The Consult: Real FBI Profilers — The Tylenol Murders In the fall of 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that had been deliberately laced with cyanide.…
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Haley Anderson
Episode 79 Haley Anderson When Binghamton University student, Haley Anderson, stopped answering her friends' texts, they knew something was very wrong. A subsequent search revealed Haley was dead in a mutual friend's…
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Introducing DNA ID Episode 205 The case of Eileen Zarlenga
Introducing DNA ID Episode 205 The case of Eileen Zarlenga Single mom Eileen Zarlenga disappeared from her home on a cold night in March 1988, taking her coat, boots and purse, but leaving behind her three year old…
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Introducing THE FIRST 48, a new A&E and Crime House podcast!
Introducing THE FIRST 48, a new A&E and Crime House podcast! For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don't get a lead within the first 48 hours. Adapted from the hit A&E true…
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Introducing Morbidology and the case of the 2022 Raleigh Shootings
Introducing Morbidology and the case of the 2022 Raleigh Shootings On the evening of 13th October 2022, in the Hedingham neighbourhood of northeast Raleigh, North Carolina, residents heard shots. Those who stepped…
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The Kent State Shootings Part 2
Episode 78 The Kent State Shootings Part 2 We conclude season 4 of Campus Killings with part 2 of our deep dive into the infaamous Kent State shootings. If you have not yet listened to part 1 yet, please stop now and…
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The Kent State Shootings Part 1
Episode 77 The Kent State Shootings Part 1 We wrap up season four of Campus Killings with a 2-parter exploring one of America's darkest and most infamous campus cases; the Kent State shootings. The Kent State…
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Alexa Cannon
Episode 76 Alexa Cannon When police responded to a 911 call from one of Radford University's off-campus housing units, they did not expect to be met at the door by a woman covered in blood and pleading to be arrested…
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Sam Martinez
Episode 75 Sam Martinez Washington State University freshman, Sam Martinez, died of acute alcohol poisoning after a fraternity pledge ritual. While the university initially stated they had no culpability in Sam's…
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Melissa Herstrum
Episode 74 Melissa Herstrum When 19-year-old University of Toledo student, Melissa Herstrum was found frozen solid to the ground in the Science building's parking lot in 1992, it would only take days for law…
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Jasper Howard & Jafar Karzoun
Episode 73 Jasper Howard & Jafar Karzoun Between 2009 and 2010 two students were killed by campus visitors at the University of Connecticut. Between an unsecured dance and a campus tradition that had gotten out of…
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Kelsey Annese and Matthew Hutchinson
Episode 72 Kelsey Annese and Matthew Hutchinson In the cold winter of 2016, no one on the quiet, bucolic campus of SUNY Geneseo could have imagined that an innocent breakup would lead to a double murder/suicide. To…
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Mia Henderson
Episode 71 Mia Henderson When University of Arizona police were called to the Graham-Greenlee dorm on the morning of September 5th, 2007, they found two injured freshmen and a dorm room full of blood. Mia Henderson…
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Alan Beaman Part 2 of 2
Episode 71 Alan Beaman Part 2 of 2 This is part 2 of the Alan Beaman case. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, please stop now and go back and listen to that part first. In 1995, Illinois Wesleyan University…
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Alan Beaman Part 1 of 2
Episode 70 Alan Beaman Part 1 of 2 When 22 year old Jennifer Lockmiller was found murdered in her off-campus apartment outside Illinois State University, her ex-boyfriend, Alan Beaman, from Illinois Wesleyan seemed…
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Arlis Perry
Episode 69 Arlis Perry On an October night in 1974, recently married Arlis Perry went to Stanford University's Memorial church to pray after an argument with her husband. The next morning, her body was found lying in…
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Introducing: Below the Surface from AbJack Entertainment
Introducing: Below the Surface from AbJack Entertainment Below the Surface is a true crime podcast covering a variety of strange and bizarre cases with one common theme; a water connection. The show features both…
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Virginia Olsen
Episode 68 Virginia Olsen On a brisk spring day in April of 1973, University of North Carolina-Asheville drama major, Virginia Olsen, was found brutally murdered in the University's botanical gardens. Though her…
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Tucker Hipps
Episode 67 Tucker Hipps Clemson University sophomore, Tucker Hipps, pledged to Sigma Phi Epsilon and joined their pledge run on Sept 22nd, 2014. He never returned, and his body was later found floating in Hartwell…
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Taylor Samson
Episode 66 Taylor Samson Dalhousie University physics student, Taylor Samson, left his apartment right before school began in 2015. He told his girlfriend he'd be right back, but he never returned. A missing persons…
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Sarah Papenheim
Episode 65 Sarah Papenheim Minnesota native, Sarah Papenheim decided to study abroad at Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She picked a roommate who shared her love of music. She had no idea how…
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Maggie Wardle
Episode 64 Maggie Wardle The small, insular culture of Kalamazoo College often led to short, fiery relationships between co-eds that heated up and fizzled quickly. But in October of 1999, one fizzled relationship…
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Scout Schultz
Episode 63 Scout Schultz Scout Schultz was in their last year at Georgia Tech. The president of the campus' Pride Alliance who was so far ahead in their academics they were set to graduate a semester early seemed to…
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Michigan State University Mass Shooting
Episode 62 Michigan State University Mass Shooting A gunman entered the Michigan State University campus on a cold February night in 2023 and opened fire. But what his motives may have been have never been clear. To…
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Sis Linn
Episode 61 Sis Linn When Glenville State University alumni Sis Linn is murdered in her own home, her case goes quickly cold. Over one hundred years later, students and faculty still speculate about who killed her and…
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Hannah Graham
Episode 60 Hannah Graham Campus Killings is back with an all new season! In this episode, we explore the 2014 disappearance and murder of Hannah Graham; an 18 year old student at University of Virginia. She vanished…
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The White Rose Resistance Part 2
Episode 59 The White Rose Resistance Part 2 This is the conclusion, part 2 of The White Rose Resistance. If you have not yet listened to part 1, please stop now and go back and listen to that part first. In part 2,…
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The White Rose Resistance Part 1
Episode 58 The White Rose Resistance Part 1 Welcome to Part 1 of our Season Finale! In the heart of Nazi-Germany, a group of students and a professor from the University of Munich ran a secret resistance movement…
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The Seton Hall Fire
Episode 57 The Seton Hall Fire Badly burned in the infamous Seton Hall University fire of 2000, roommates Alvaro Llanos and Shawn Simons have spent the last twenty five years turning their traumatic experience into a…
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The Rio Grande Rivalry Shooting
Episode 56 The Rio Grande Rivalry Shooting The University of New Mexico Lobos and New Mexico State University Aggies have had a friendly athletic rivalry for over a century. But after a brawl broke out at an Aggies…
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Amy Butcher
Episode 55 Amy Butcher Amy Butcher never expected to be close to a killer. But while attending Gettysburg College, her friend, Kevin Schaeffer, murdered his ex-girlfriend Emily Silverstein right after walking Amy home…
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David Buller
Episode 54 David Buller In the winter of 2001, Professor David Buller was found murdered in his office at the University of Toronto. With no potential suspects and zero DNA evidence at the scene, Professor Buller's…
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Dr. Robert Knox
Episode 53 Dr. Robert Knox The anatomy labs at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Scotland had a difficult time procuring cadavers in the 1820s. Laws at the time limited professors to only obtaining the…
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Introducing: Killer Communications
Introducing: Killer Communications AbJack Entertainment, the same network that brings you new episodes of Campus Killings every 2 weeks, has a brand new show launching March 1,2025. It's called Killer Communications,…
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Pravin Varughese
Episode 52 Pravin Varughese In the bitter cold winter of 2014, Southern Illinois University sophomore, Pravin Varughese was found dead in a patch of woods just outside the college town of Carbondale. While initially…
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Katy Hawelka
Episode 51 Katy Hawelka In the summer of 1986, two security guards on Clarkson University's campus interrupted what they thought was an act of consensual sex. But further investigation revealed it was the sexual…
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Robert Champion
Episode 50 Robert Champion In 2011, drum major Robert Champion was living his dream as one of the premier members of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University's "Marching 100." But when he realized he could no…
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Betsy Aardsma Part 2 of 2
Episode 49 Betsy Aardsma Part 2 of 2 This is the conlusion of our 2 part coverage of the November, 1969 murder of Betsy Aardsma in the Pattee Library at Penn State. In this episode, we take a closer look at perhaps…
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Betsy Aardsma Part 1 of 2
Episode 48 Betsy Aardsma Part 1 of 2 The Pattee Library at Penn State University would become the crime scene of a murder over Thanksgiving weekend in 1969. Graduate student Betsy Aardsma was found prone in the stacks…
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Introducing Silkwood
Introducing Silkwood Silkwood is a multi-part podcast that intricately examines the life of whistleblower Karen Silkwood, the nuclear behemoth she sought to expose, the government's role in potential wrong-doings, and…
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The Orangeburg Massacre
Episode 47 The Orangeburg Massacre On the cold night of Feb. 8, 1968, the students of South Carolina State College gathered on the lawn of the campus to protest the continued segregation of the town of Orangeburg.…
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Ted Streleski
Episode 46 Ted Streleski In 1978, mathematics doctoral candidate, Ted Streleski, waited for Prof. Karel deLeeuw to enter his office before coming up behind him and bludgeoning him to death with a hammer. While…
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Mark Kilroy
Episode 45 Mark Kilroy In 1989, twenty-one-year-old Mark Kilroy and his friends were enjoying spring break in the border town of Mexico's Matamoros. But on the fourth night of partying, Mark vanished off the busy…
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Michelle Le
Episode 44 Michelle Le Nursing student, Michelle Le, from Samuel Merritt University took a scheduled break during one of her clinical rounds at Heyward hospital. She was never seen again. As police tried to find her,…
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