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The story of Penn State University graduate student Betsy Aardsma’s unsolved murder has haunted the campus as a kind of urban legend for more than five decades. Although told as a ghost story, those who investigated fear that her very real murder is being forgotten.
On Thanksgiving weekend 1969, 22-year-old Betsy was murdered by a single stab wound to the chest in the stacks of the Pattee Library. Her killer has never been caught.
Promo: Batwings & Butterflies
SOURCES
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/murder-in-the-stacks-50-years-later-still-no-answers/article_b6280ed6-1a18-11ea-a966-2b1ac6ebcdcb.html
https://lancasteronline.com/news/who-killed-betsy-aardsma/article_960ccf9d-03af-59f4-a8fb-4c5749caff40.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/unsolved-murder-penn-state-student-betsy-aardsma-haunts-community-52-n1284867
Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away; by David Dekok
https://lancasteronline.com/news/who-killed-betsy-aardsma/article_960ccf9d-03af-59f4-a8fb-4c5749caff40.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/unsolved-murder-penn-state-student-betsy-aardsma-haunts-community-52-n1284867
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On Thanksgiving weekend 1969, 22-year-old Betsy was murdered by a single stab wound to the chest in the stacks of the Pattee Library. Her killer has never been caught.
Promo: Batwings & Butterflies
SOURCES
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/murder-in-the-stacks-50-years-later-still-no-answers/article_b6280ed6-1a18-11ea-a966-2b1ac6ebcdcb.html
https://lancasteronline.com/news/who-killed-betsy-aardsma/article_960ccf9d-03af-59f4-a8fb-4c5749caff40.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/unsolved-murder-penn-state-student-betsy-aardsma-haunts-community-52-n1284867
Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away; by David Dekok
https://lancasteronline.com/news/who-killed-betsy-aardsma/article_960ccf9d-03af-59f4-a8fb-4c5749caff40.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/unsolved-murder-penn-state-student-betsy-aardsma-haunts-community-52-n1284867
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support.
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