Campus Killings
About the hosts:
Campus Killings is hosted by criminologists and educators, Dr. Meghan Sacks and Dr. Amy Shlosberg who also host Women & Crime, and Direct Appeal podcasts. (It’s produced by Mike Morford, with research and writing by Abagail Belcastro).
About the show:
In each episode of Campus Killings, 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.
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Latest Episodes
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 bodies of criminals sentenced to death, leading educators to take desperate measures in order to obtain specimens for their classes. These included paying ‘body-snatchers’ to dig up the recently deceased or, in the unfortunate case of Dr. Robert Knox, unknowingly accepting the bodies of murdered citizens.
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 ruled a tragic accident, Pravin’s family and some unexpected allies would pressure the law enforcement community to reopen the case as a murder. But when it was all said and done, was justice ever served?
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 assault and subsequent murder of business major Katy Hawelka. Almost forty years later, her family has still not found closure.
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