The Unsolved Murder in the Stacks
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05/09/22 • 38 min
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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
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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
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SOURCES
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https://caselaw.findlaw.com/tx-court-of-appeals/1129251.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/third-court-of-appeals/2014/03-13-00522-cv.html
https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/reviewDetail.action?sid=07472492&tdcj=01407817&fullName=DAVIDSON%2CWENDI+MAE
https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2006-12-01/veterinarian-sentenced-25-years-husbands-murder
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