Deaths Of Female College Students: Related?

[SeriouslySearching]

Anonymous letter writer may help solve 1984 homicide case

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – Authorities investigating a 1984 homicide case in Portage County are looking for the anonymous author of a letter they say could help solve the case.

Twenty-year-old Janet Raasch was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point when her body was found in some woods south of the city.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/2...lp-solve-184-homicide-case/?intcmp=latestnews

BBM

 

[Donamena]

Anonymous letter writer may help solve 1984 homicide case

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – Authorities investigating a 1984 homicide case in Portage County are looking for the anonymous author of a letter they say could help solve the case.

Twenty-year-old Janet Raasch was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point when her body was found in some woods south of the city.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/2...lp-solve-184-homicide-case/?intcmp=latestnews

BBM

My Lord, it appears that being a female student at UW is perilous. How many do you believe are connected & for how long a period do believe the SK was active, for it surely must be an SK. This is horrible & unconscionable.

 

[trigger]

At the time, police identified many persons of interest, but they never had enough evidence to name a suspect, WSAS reported.

The case stayed open.

In 2002, investigators exhumed Raasch's body, hoping modern DNA tests could lead to new evidence, the newspaper reported. They didn't.

Last year, police started working on a tip that the 20-year-old might have been pregnant — which could have meant more DNA evidence.

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/crime/new-letter-solve-30-year-old-murder-case-cops-article-1.1808024

Good video in article.

 

[macrauchenia]

Supposedly fell through ice trying to walk across Lake Champlain. Body never recovered.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/stgermaine_linda.html

She was only 12 but it might go to show that it's not just men who accidentally fall into lakes and rivers in cold weather. (I think that the people who fall in water during warmer weather normally survive, certainly at a much higher rate than those who fall into water in cold weather.)

(I think many of the "Smiley Face Murders" really ARE accidents, that some are muggings gone wrong and other random murders by strangers, that a few are ODs covered up by friends, and that some are probably serial killers' victims. But I think the smiley face graffiti is mostly coincidence and that a lot of it's been added afterwards by copycat-esque people.)

 

[macrauchenia]

Supposedly fell through ice trying to walk across Lake Champlain. Body never recovered.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/stgermaine_linda.html

She was only 12 but it might go to show that it's not just men who accidentally fall into lakes and rivers in cold weather. (I think that the people who fall in water during warmer weather normally survive, certainly at a much higher rate than those who fall into water in cold weather.)

But that girl was by herself. Most young women who go downtown at night do not go alone (well, most young men also go with friends) but women are by far stricter adherents of the "buddy system."

I think that's the primary reason why there's not anywhere near a comparable number of young women drowning in similar circumstances to all these young men.

We women stay in groups or pairs, and just in general we keep better track of each other, because we have always lived with the very real threat of rape. This is especially true when we are partying or otherwise unsober, we know that makes it riskier to be alone.

If/when ever a drunk college woman wanted to stumble down to the water's edge, her friends would probably be there to stop her, or at least they could then help her if she had fallen in.

I've also read on good authority (wish I remembered where) that many men get some sort of mild glee from peeing into water while outdoors (a temptation that rarely affects women in my opinion). When you're drunk, you have to pee a lot more often, and it's much easier to slip and fall. This also fits with the information that several of the drowned men were revealed to have been recovered with unzipped flies, but nothing else out of the ordinary.