This week Stacey tells us about how, in October 2006, University of Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn was abducted while walking home, sexually assaulted, and murdered by Brian Rooney, whose DNA linked him to the crime, resulting in his conviction and life sentence without parole.

Sources:

https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/vtlib/Documents/2008-470.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/10/15/slain-nva-student-loved-outdoors-friends-recall/22eb6086-7d33-4965-b713-b96b6ca2601c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Michelle_Gardner-Quinn

https://vtcynic.com/news/michelle-gardner-quinn-case-closed

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vt-cops-have-suspect-but-no-charges/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-links-suspect-to-slain-vt-student/

https://www.truecrimene.com/episodes/b7gsh9r65svsaipky6gcm8734f2gb0

https://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2006/oct/16/friends-remember-murdered-arlington-student/

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This week Erin tells us about the murder of Lauren Giddings, a Mercer Law graduate who was strangled and dismembered by her neighbor and classmate Stephen McDaniel in 2011, a crime for which McDaniel later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNMbCvc5Sk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lauren_Giddings

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fi6ivv/sped_up_footage_from_the_interrogation_of_stephen/

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/540762-mcdaniel-defense-motions-351-pages/

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This week Stacey tells us about Matrice Richardson, who disappeared after midnight release from a Malibu sheriff's station in 2009 and was found dead nearly a year later, with questions about law enforcement’s actions still unresolved.

Sources:

https://iamjasmyne.com/15-years-later-why-we-still-demand-justice-for-mitrice-richardson/

https://thelocalmalibu.com/new-revelations-and-lies-exposed-uncovering-the-cover-up-in-the-mitrice-richardson-case/

https://capitolweekly.net/mitrice-richardson-the-anatomy-of-a-murder-and-cover-up/

https://www.saytheirnames.online/mitrice-richardson

https://abc7.com/post/mitrice-richardson-abc7-special-malibu-missing-unsolved-la/11349737/

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