Campus Killings

Campus Killings

Campus Killings is a Bi-Weekly true crime podcast that debuts on September 17, 2022, and releases new episodes every other Saturday. Campus Killings is hosted by Dr. Meghan Sacks and Dr. Amy Shlosberg (Women & Crime, and Direct Appeal podcasts). In each episode, 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. As criminologists, Meghan and Amy teach, research, write and podcast about victims, offenders and the issues surrounding our criminal justice system-and each have over 20 years of experience working in the system in various capacities such as law enforcement, mental health and offender reentry. Campus Killings is researched and written by Jessica Bettencourt (DNA: ID, and Missing Persons podcasts) It's produced by Mike Morford of AbJack Entertainment (Criminology, and The Murder in My Family podcasts) Follow Campus Killings on social media- On Facebook: facebook.com/Campuskillings On Twitter: twitter.com/CampusKillings

Episodes

November 1, 2025 35 mins

Episode 64 Maggie Wardle

The small, insular culture of Kalamazoo College often led to short, fiery relationships between co-eds that heated up and fizzled quickly. But in October of 1999, one fizzled relationship between sophomores Maggie Wardle and Neenef Odoh would reignite into a dead...

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Episode 63 Scout Schultz

Scout Schultz was in their last year at Georgia Tech. The president of the campus' Pride Alliance who was so far ahead in their academics they were set to graduate a semester early seemed to be on top of the world. But Scout's mental health was in a dark place th...

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October 4, 2025 32 mins

Episode 62 Michigan State University Mass Shooting

A gunman entered the Michigan State University campus on a cold February night in 2023 and opened fire. But wha...

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September 20, 2025 35 mins

Episode 61 Sis Linn

When Glenville State University alumni Sis Linn is murdered in her own home, her case goes quickly cold. Over one hundred years later, students and faculty still speculate about who killed her and what their motive was.

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September 6, 2025 36 mins

Episode 60 Hannah Graham

Campus Killings is back with an all new season! In this episode, we explore the 2014 disappearance and murder of Hannah Graham; an 18 year old student at University of Virginia. She vanished on September 13 of that year. A large scale search for her was conducted, which to this day, is still the largest missing persons search conducted in the state of VA. Unfortunately, nothing was found. Then, five weeks a...

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June 7, 2025 28 mins

Episode 59 The White Rose Resistance Part 2

This is the conclusion, part 2 of The White Rose Resistance. If you have not yet listened to part 1, please stop now and go back and listen to that part first. 

In part 2, we find out the fates of the White Rose Resistance members, and we'll hear how their legacies, and efforts were honored.

Check out the book mentioned in this episode; Sophie Scholl and the White Ros...

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May 24, 2025 29 mins

Episode 58 The White Rose Resistance Part 1

Welcome to Part 1 of our Season Finale! In the heart of Nazi-Germany, a group of students and a professor from the University of Munich ran a secret resistance movement against the Nazi regime. Risking death by execution and the imprisonment of...

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May 10, 2025 29 mins

 

Episode 57 The Seton Hall Fire

Badly burned in the infamous Seton Hall University fire of 2000, roommates Alvaro Llanos and Shawn Simons have spent the last twenty five years turning their traumatic experience into a legacy of...

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April 26, 2025 33 mins

Episode 56 The Rio Grande Rivalry Shooting

The University of New Mexico Lobos and New Mexico State University Aggies have had a friendly athletic rivalry for over a century. But after a brawl broke out at an Aggies football game in October of 2022, the rivalry turned from school spirit t...

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April 12, 2025 35 mins

Episode 55 Amy Butcher

Amy Butcher never expected to be close to a killer. But while attending Gettysburg College, her friend, Kevin Schaeffer, murdered his ex-girlfrie...

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March 29, 2025 40 mins

Episode 54 David Buller

In the winter of 2001, Professor David Buller was found murdered in his office at the University of Toronto. With no potential suspects and zero DNA evidence at the scene, Professor Buller's case quickly went cold. For over 20 years, his family has hoped for answers, but no...

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March 15, 2025 29 mins

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 ...

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March 3, 2025 10 mins

Introducing: Killer Communications

AbJack Entertainment, the same network that brings you new episodes of Campus Killings every 2 weeks, has a brand new show launching March 1,2025. It's called Killer Communications, and it's hosted by Mike Morford. In each episode of Killer Communications, Mike discusses a true crime case where one of the clues is a mysterious form of contact; whether it's a frightening phone call to a victim, a m...

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March 1, 2025 33 mins

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 wou...

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February 15, 2025 34 mins

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 y...

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February 1, 2025 33 mins

Episode 50 Robert Champion 

In 2011, drum major Robert Champion was living his dream as one of the premier members of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University's "Marching 100." But when he realized he could no longer avoid an initiation ritual without losing the respect and command of his position, he decided to participate in "Crossing Bus-C." The decision would end his life, and uncover a culture of vio...

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January 18, 2025 31 mins

Episode 49 Betsy Aardsma Part 2 of 2

This is the conlusion of our 2 part coverage of the November, 1969 murder of Betsy Aardsma in the Pattee Library at Penn State. In this episode, we take a closer look at perhaps the best suspect in the case. 

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January 4, 2025 28 mins

Episode 48 Betsy Aardsma Part 1 of 2

The Pattee Library at Penn State University would become the crime scene of a murder over Thanksgiving weekend in 1969. Graduate student Betsy Aardsma was found prone in the stacks with no ev...

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December 28, 2024 9 mins

Introducing Silkwood

Silkwood is a multi-part podcast that intricately examines the life of whistleblower Karen Silkwood, the nuclear behemoth she sought to expose, the government's role in potential wrong-doings, and asks the question: What actually happened on that cold and win...

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December 21, 2024 33 mins

Episode 47 The Orangeburg Massacre

On the cold night of Feb. 8, 1968, the students of South Carolina State College gathered on the lawn of the campus to protest the continued segregation of the town of Orangeburg. Facing down the National Guard, the students were fired upon for 10 second...

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