Ivy League Murders

September 7, 2012 the beautiful and gregarious Faith Hedgepeth was brutally murdered at off campus housing at UNC. Her case went cold for nine years and was subject to a lot of speculation. Even a DNA phenotyping of the suspect didn't eliminate suspicion about certain key players.

We kick off our art theft series with veteran investigator, Anthony Amore and the why and how behind high-priced heists.

Michael Bruce Ross was a serial killer who was executed in Connecticut after he waived his right to appeal. It was the first execution in New England in 45 years, and makes the Roadside Strangler the only Ivy League Graduate to have been on death row.

Yale University's Suzanne Jovin was brutally murdered December 4th, 1998. Why was her case not solved and could it have been?

Leopold and Loeb were two wealthy students attending the University of Chicago in May of 1924, when they committed the "Crime of the Century", kidnapping and murdering 14-year old Bobby Franks, as a demonstration of their ostensible intellectual superiority. The boys thought they could carry out the perfect crime, and completely absolve themselves of any responsibility of what they had done. The Families retained Clarence Darrow as their defense attorney, although they would ultimately both end up sentenced to life in prison.

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