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Campus Killings

AbJack Entertainment

105 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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  1. Michelle Le

    · 39 min · Episode 44

    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,…

  2. Introducing: Mind of a Serial Killer

    · 21 min · Trailer

    What makes a serial killer? Mind of a Serial Killer takes you deep into the twisted minds of history's most notorious serial killers. Every Monday, hosts Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels, a Clinical and…

  3. Sophie Elliott

    · 39 min · Episode 43

    Episode 43 Sophie Elliott When young New Zealand undergrad, Sophie Elliot, asked for tutoring in economics, she met a professor who she thought would help her succeed. Instead, she not only found herself the victim of…

  4. Kyle Quinn

    · 37 min · Episode 42

    Episode 42 Kyle Quinn On a summer night in 2007, Kutztown University sophomore Kyle Quinn was walking back to his dorm along Kutztown's main street when he was surrounded by a group of strange men and beaten to death.…

  5. Listen Now- Criminal Attorney

    · 7:43 · Trailer

    Listen Now- Criminal Attorney Paul Bergrin is a hotshot criminal defense attorney in Newark, New Jersey. Seemingly unstoppable and with unorthodox methods, he's built a reputation for getting his clients off the hook.…

  6. Faith Hedgepeth

    · 39 min · Episode 41

    Episode 41 Faith Hedgepeth When indigenous University of North Carolina student Faith Hedgepeth turned up murdered in her friend's off-campus apartment, there were no obvious suspects for who would have wanted to kill…

  7. Brittany Zimmerman

    · 37 min · Episode 40

    Episode 40 Brittany Zimmerman When University of Wisconsin senior, Brittany Zimmerman was found dead in her apartment, her fiancé called 911. But what the police were told, and what the scene actually looked like were…

  8. Generation Why: The Olympic Park Bombing

    · 5:20 · Trailer

    Generation Why: The Olympic Park Bombing You can listen to Generation Why: The Olympic Park Bombing ad-free right now by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts.

  9. Jane Stanford Part 2 of 2

    · 39 min · Episode 39

    Episode 39 Jane Stanford Part 2 of 2 If you have not listened yet to our last episode, part 1 of the Jane Stanford case, please stop now and go back and listen to that episode first. In the season finale of Campus…

  10. Jane Stanford Part 1 of 2

    · 33 min

    Episode 38 Jane Stanford Part 1 of 2 Jane Stanford, co-founder of Stanford University, died on her Hawaii vacation in 1905 after drinking from a bottle of mineral water that had been laced with pure strychnine. The…

  11. Cayley Mandadi

    · 43 min · Episode 37

    Episode 37 Cayley Mandadi When Trinity University student, Cayley Mandadi was rushed to a local hospital by her boyfriend, doctors originally treated Cayley for a potential drug overdose. However, when she died, the…

  12. Adam Oakes

    · 40 min · Episode 36

    Episode 36 Adam Oakes A 19-year old fraternity pledge at Virginia Commonwealth University must drink a handle of whiskey as part of his initiation ceremony. He does, and dies. Eleven fraternity brothers let him. On…

  13. Joe Micalizzi

    · 39 min · Episode 35

    Episode 35 Joe Micalizzi The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is well known for its dedication to campus safety and student security. But its location in the city of Newark would show that no matter how tight…

  14. Jillian Robbins

    · 32 min · Episode 34

    Episode 34 Jillian Robbins Jillian Robbins was a troubled teen with a long history of mental instability. But when she lied on her military application and was accepted to basic training, her years of hallucinations…

  15. Kaylee Sawyer & Aundreah Maes

    · 40 min · Episode 33

    Episode 33 Kaylee Sawyer & Aundreah Maes A Central Oregon Community College security guard confesses to his wife that he killed a woman before he drives off into the night. Over the next 48 hours, he will kidnap,…

  16. Gina Grant

    · 45 min · Episode 32

    Episode 32 Gina Grant Gina Grant was a bright, inspirational teen when she received her early acceptance to Harvard University in 1995. However, only days later, Harvard rescinded their offer after receiving an…

  17. Theora Hix

    · 39 min · Episode 31

    Episode 31 Theora Hix In 1929 James Snook was a renowned professor at the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. But when the body of 25 year old Theora Hix was found in a field near the gun range where…

  18. The Monash Massacre

    · 39 min · Episode 30

    Episode 30 The Monash Massacre On a normal October day in 2002, an international student walked into his classroom at Australia's Monash University and shot four students and his professor. For a country that had…

  19. Listen Now - Dr. Death: Bad Magic

    · 5:29 · Trailer

    When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around the world turn to him for their last chance. As medical experts praise Serhat Gumrukcu's genius, the company…

  20. The Gainesville Ripper

    · 43 min · Episode 29

    Episode 29 The Gainesville Ripper Between August 25 and August 28 of 1990, five Gainesville, Florida students are found brutally murdered in their off-campus apartments. The University of Florida, the surrounding…

  21. The Cogswell Hall Murders

    · 40 min · Episode 28

    Episode 28 The Cogswell Hall Murders A freshman boy is found murdered in his dorm room at Gallaudet University. But the campus's tight security means that the only person who could be the killer is someone on the…

  22. Tillie Smith

    · 37 min · Episode 27

    Episode 27 Tillie Smith In 1886, a small tourist town in the hills of Warren County, New Jersey, are rocked when a young woman's body is found on the grounds of the Centenary Collegiate Institute. Tillie Smith's…

  23. Yingying Zhang

    · 39 min · Episode 26

    Episode 26 Yingying Zhang YingYing Zhang's future looked bright. The international doctoral student had everything going for her; talent, intellect, success, and a support system at both the University of Illinois…

  24. Katherine Foster

    · 36 min · Episode 25

    Episode 25 Katherine Foster The University of Southern Alabama was experiencing an incredibly cold winter in February of 1980. Little did anyone know the weather would cause the murder of 18 year old Katherine Foster…

  25. Thomas Meixner

    · 39 min · Episode 24

    Episode 24 Thomas Meixner The Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona had a very problematic student. After Dr. Thomas Meixner gave Murad Dervish a failing midterm grade, Murad…

  26. Bayard Peakes

    · 40 min · Episode 23

    Episode 23 Bayard Peakes On a summer morning in 1952, a young man named Bayard Peakeswalked into the Physical Society's Office at Columbia University. Hewas angry that his article had been rejected from their…

  27. The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre

    · 50 min · Episode 22

    Episode 22 The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre Quebec experienced intensive social upheaval over the course of the 20th century, affecting everything from university structures to social commentary. In 1989, Quebec women…

  28. Sigrid Stevenson and Johnny Fiocco

    · 43 min · Episode 21

    Episode 21 Sigrid Stevenson and Johnny Fiocco In 1977, a graduate student named Sigrid Stevenson was brutally murdered in the performance center at the College of New Jersey. Over forty years later, her killer is…

  29. Sami Josephson

    · 40 min · Episode 20

    Episode 20: Sami Josephson On a Thursday in March,2019, University of South Carolina student, Sami Josephson went out to the FivePoints district to celebrate her acceptance to Drexel's Graduate School of Law. She…

  30. Introducing Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University from Wondery

    · 11 min · Trailer

    Introducing Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University from Wondery Dr. Robert Hadden was a trusted OB-GYN at Columbia University. Friendly, caring, unassuming… and behind the closed door of exam rooms, one of the most…

  31. Campus Killings Season 2 Trailer

    · 1:10 · Trailer

    Season 2 of Campus Killings will debut on September 16, 2023. We hope you'll join us this season. If you would like to listen to the first episode of season 2 early, and AD-FREE. please consider an AbJack Insider…

  32. Introducing AbJack Insider

    · 2:08 · Trailer

    AbJack Entertainment, the true crime network that brings you Campus Killings and several other true crime podcasts, would like to introduce you to AbJack Insider through Apple Podcasts. What is AbJack Insider? It's a…

  33. Lauren McCluskey

    · 45 min

    Episode 19 Lauren McCluskey University of Utah track and field star Lauren McCluskey had everything going for her. Until she met Melvin Shawn Rowland at a club, and started dating him. Melvin told Lauren he was just…

  34. Cheri Jo Bates

    · 46 min

    Episode 18 Cheri Jo Bates In 1966, Riverside City College student Cheri Jo Bates was viciously stabbed 42 times and nearly decapitated in an alley after leaving the school library. Police discovered that her car had…

  35. Annie Le

    · 41 min

    Episode 17 Annie Le In 2009, pharmacology graduate student and soon-to-be bride Annie Le went to her research lab in the basement of a medical research facility at Yale University. She never left. She was finally found…

  36. Colleen Ritzer

    · 46 min

    Episode 16 Colleen Ritzer In 2013, a shocking crime rocked the town of Danvers, Massachusetts.Colleen Ritzer, a beloved math teacher at Danvers High School was found savaged, raped and buried under leaves off the cross…

  37. Dana Bailey

    · 41 min

    Episode 15 Dana Bailey In 1987, Penn State senior Dana Bailey was the victim of a man police believe was stalking her. He watched her from an adjacent building, and one night he scaled rooftops and climbed into her…

  38. Suzanne 'Suzy' Lyall

    · 59 min

    Episode 14 Suzanne 'Suzy' Lyall The 1998 disappearance of Suzanne Lyall, who was known to many as Suzy, is one of the better-known missing persons cases. Suzy was a studious and industrious student at SUNY-Albany who…

  39. Lola Martinez

    · 46 min

    Episode 13 Lola Martinez In 2008, 22 year-old Liette Nicole Martinez who went by Lola, a graphic design student at New Mexico State University, was studying at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Indiana as…

  40. Norma Patricia Esparza

    · 39 min

    Episode 12 Norma Patricia Esparza In 1995, Irvine, CA police found a man brutally hacked to death and dumped along a roadside. There was reason to believe that he had been abducted by a team of people in Santa Ana.…

  41. Introducing Cold The Search For Sheree

    · 9:03 · Trailer

    Introducing Cold The Search For Sheree Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car…

  42. Christine Rothschild

    · 54 min

    Episode 11 Christine Rothschild In May 1968, the murder of University of Wisconsin – Madison first year student Christine Rothschild shocked the campus of 33,000 students. Studious and quiet Christine was unhappy at…

  43. Nicholas Armstrong

    · 42 min

    Episode 10 Nicholas Armstrong In 1999, 21 year old Nicholas 'Nick' Armstrong was a new pledge in the TauKappa Epsilon fraternity at Southwest Texas State University..Nickwas a beloved, kind and hardworking student who…

  44. Rebecca Love and Libby Squire

    · 46 min

    Episode 9 Rebecca Love and Libby Squire Rebecca Love and Libby Squire In today's episode we go across the pond to discuss two cases from the University of Hull, in the UK. Rebecca Love, a graduate student, was murdered…

  45. Bonus Episode: The Idaho 4 Moscow Murders

    · 47 min · Bonus

    Bonus Episode: The Idaho 4 Moscow Murders On November 13th, 2022, the college town of Moscow, Idaho was shattered by the unthinkable. Four popular college students at U Idaho had been killed in their own beds in their…

  46. John Edward Roach

    · 43 min

    Episode 8 John Edward Roach In 1958, a brutal murder took place on the campus of Delaware College (which is now called the University of Delaware). But this was not a furtive slaying in a dorm room, or a student love…

  47. Katie Autry

    · 54 min

    Episode 7 Katie Autry A horrific crime took place on the campus of Western Kentucky University in 2003. Freshman Katie Autry was found in her dorm room, raped, beaten – and set on fire. Katie hung on for several days,…

  48. Half and Susanne Zantop

    · 59 min

    Episode 6 Half and Susanne Zantop In January 2001, the double murder of a couple, beloved professors at Dartmouth College, shocked everyone in the small college town of Hanover, New Hampshire. Half Zantop and his wife…

  49. Jane Britton

    · 50 min

    Episode 5 Jane Britton In January 1969, a brutal murder of a graduate student shocked Harvard University. Jane Britton was found raped and beaten to death in her apartment. The investigation rocked Harvard's esteemed…

  50. Pam Milam

    · 36 min

    Episode 4 Pam Milam In this episode we discuss a truly devastating campus murder – the 1972 abduction, rape and slaying of college student Pam Milam. Pam was enjoying sorority rush week at Indiana State University in…

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