… honors a scientist at the university who was murdered, two years ago, allegedly by her husband. His trial has just begun.
UD has followed, on this blog, quite a number of university-related murders, many of them the murders of estranged wives by enraged husbands.
So enraged that the murderers made it pretty easy to discover and convict them.
Two cases out of several in the last few years come to mind – George Zinkhan, a University of Georgia professor who wasn’t tried and convicted because he decided – with the police closing in – to dig his own grave and kill himself; and Rafael Robb, a University of Pennsylvania professor about to be freed after serving five years for the murder of his wife.
Five years seems about right. Except for having bludgeoned a defenseless woman to death in one of the bloodiest crimes the state of Pennsylvania has ever seen, he’s been a really good boy.
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Update: Ah. They revoked the parole.
July 30th, 2013 at 1:58PM
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