Chronicle 11: "Texas Tower of Terror"

08/02/21 • 41 min

This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). Yesterday, Aug. 1, 2021, marked the 55th anniversary of the first public mass shooting in U.S. history. In this episode, I tell the story of how one man climbed to the top of the clock tower on the University of Texas campus, loaded with plenty of guns and ammo, and wreaked havoc on people below for 96 minutes. By the time three brave men took him out, he had killed a total of 14 people and injured another 31 more.

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Chronicle 10: "A Killing Kept Secret"

This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It’s the story of how one college, Eastern Michigan University, accrued the largest fine in history (at the time) from the Department of Education in violation of the Clery Act. In 2008, the school had to pay $350,000 in fines after administration lied about the death of 22-year-old Laura Dickinson. For 10 weeks, they allowed not only Laura’s own parents, but also the entire university community and students, believe there was no foul play involved and that Laura had suddenly died of natural causes. But 10 weeks after Laura’s death, the university announced they had arrested a suspect for Laura’s murder, and they had actually been investigating it as a homicide the whole time. Find out the rest of the story in this episode, "A Killing Kept Secret."

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Chronicle 12: "A Deadly Carjacking... and Some Other Murders"

This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale). It’s the story of two college students, 19-year-olds Dominique Hurd and Peter Robertson, who were attending the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1998. After having dinner at a restaurant one night, the two students were in the parking lot, taking pictures, when a stranger approached them from seemingly out of nowhere, held them at gunpoint, and forced them to drive to a discrete rural area. Once there, the gunman taunted the students for a while before ultimately pumping bullets into both of them and leaving them for dead.
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