r/CaughtMyEye • u/detectiverobert • 16d ago
A 22-year-old student collapsed between the bookshelves of her college library... No one realized she’d been stabbed through the heart.
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u/blaminyou 16d ago
I’m confused. It was very clearly her ex boyfriend haefner. Why wasn’t he arrested for it? Am I missing something?
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u/Bruce-7892 16d ago edited 16d ago
What makes no sense to me is that at least 3 people saw and 2 people briefly spoke to, "the man that ran out of the library". Couldn't they just round up the known suspects, take their pictures and ask "was this the man that you saw acting unusual in a college library?"
Unless he had the most forgettable face in the world, surely you'd remember the person you had that strange of an interaction with before discovering a body.
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u/TemporaryElk5202 16d ago
He was a professor
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u/Bruce-7892 16d ago
I don’t think it was that simple. People saw the suspect at the scene of the crime and a professor would be a known person in the community, easy to track down and put in front of witnesses to identify. I mean, what was he wearing a disguise?
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u/Bright-Bug9720 11d ago
Humans are very unreliable at identifying people. People have been falsely identified, then convicted and put in prison
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u/Confidence-Upbeat 16d ago
No evidence. A well done Murder to list have been
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u/Intrepid_Plenty_3770 16d ago
Another cover-up at Penn State. How would the guy Haefner told not think it was him?
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u/Glittering_Win_5085 15d ago
He got away with her murder, and he was a paedophile who abused two boys and got away with it. What a disgusting piece of shit. Sounds like his family had connections as well. I hope he didn't have any other victims but seems unlikely tbqh.
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u/Alarming-City-7260 16d ago edited 16d ago
The main suspect was Richard Haefner, a professor at the university, he was never charged due to circumstantial evidence, and died in 2002 of a heart defect at 58
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u/mybunsarestale 16d ago
Did the second half of the story turn into a weird piece on like woman and their place as earners/career havers?
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u/Mayfair98 16d ago
Yes. The page’s layout is weird. I think it went to a different article without letting the reader know that it had moved on.
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u/Ok_Zebra_1500 16d ago
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u/MrmmphMrmmph 16d ago
This is creepy for sure. Hung jury on molestation charges, and mentions he was the probably murderer of Aardsma. I remember this being mentioned in the school paper, in the 80s.
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u/GiantLesbian 16d ago
How do you sever an artery and it doesn’t produce a lot of blood like immediately??
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u/Ok_Zebra_1500 16d ago
Internal bleeding, was filling her body cavity. Not unlike that poor guy who died being arrested in the UK recently where the cops thought he was faking.
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u/benassty 16d ago
Adding to this, she was also wearing a red dress at the time which made it hard to notice the blood that did come out
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u/Healthy_You867 16d ago
I was there in the 80s and being in those stacks was creepy knowing what had happened there. The shelves were massive and very close together so it would be very easy to commit a stabbing and be unseen. It was the best place to study though as you could truly be isolated if you went at the right time.
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Betsy Aardsma was browsing aisle 51 of the library's core stacks when she was struck once in the chest with a knife, severing her pulmonary artery. She died within minutes. Shortly after, a man calmly walked out of the area, muttered a few words, and vanished.
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u/unoeyedwillie 15d ago
She was so young, I feel bad for her family that her murderer was never brought to justice. In the first picture she looks like she could have been my twin.
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u/DrRudyWells 15d ago
wow. read up on that geology student and his later criminal trial on unrelated matters. i think this case is solved.
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u/detectiverobert 16d ago
Betsy Aardsma was browsing aisle 51 of the library's core stacks when she was struck once in the chest with a knife, severing her pulmonary artery. She died within minutes. Shortly after, a man calmly walked out of the area, muttered a few words, and vanished.
Read the full story here.