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A couple of interesting articles A class at the UWO seems to have tracked down the "surgeon" and interviewed him:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...udents-investigate-cold-cases/article4193018/
http://communications.uwo.ca/wester..._up_cold_cases_with_student_society-lite.html
http://books.google.ca/books?id=cEy...AjgU#v=onepage&q=Christine Rothschild&f=false
Interesting articles. They should hand over the case files to Websleuths. We'd have a field day! We'd do a lot better job than the university did. A Madison Capital Times June 26, 1968 article states that
top officials from the university, the Dane County Sheriff's Office and Madison City Police met the following morning, and decided that Ralph Hanson, University police chief, should be their spokesman in matters relating to the investigation. Hanson, whose chief qualification for a murder investigation seems to be that he attended a couple of traffic schools in his native New England, has contributed little public information on the slaying except to call a few press conferences where his principal answer to questions has been "No comment."
On top of that, the university lost all the files on the case a few years back.
As far as the murder itself goes, it was stated that Rothchild was stabbed 17 times, three of them superficial wounds in the breasts, chest & neck with death caused by a puncture wound to the heart, four broken ribs from the "stabbing instrument", jaw broken on both sides of the face apparently from a direct blow of a fist on the chin, strangled with a piece of cloth ripped from her coat lining and tied in a single slip knot around her neck. Underneath her head was a blood-soaked man's handkerchief. Two of her gloves were forced down her throat. Now that's overkill!