Ivy League Murders

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Harvard's Amy Bishop the Criminal Zeitgeist Sep 10, 2020

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Join us this week as we talk to the ladies from the Women and Crime Podcast and discuss what motivated Amy Bishop to kill three of her colleagues in a Mass Shooting?

Sister School Edition: Vassar College's Christa Worthington: A Murder in Truro Sep 04, 2020

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This week, Sarah and Laura take a look up close and personal at the 2002 murder of Christa Worthington, who was found dead in her Truro, Mass. home. A Barnstable Superior Court jury convicted Christopher McCowen in 2006 of murdering her, despite several other possible suspects.

Sister School Edition: Smith College’s Jean Harris: Starving for Love Aug 28, 2020

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Jean Harris was the head mistress of the elite Madeira Prep school but, she secretly hid a prescription pill problem and an obsession for the one thing she couldn't have, Herman Tarnower

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UPENN's Rafael Robb: Gaming the Legal System Aug 24, 2020

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Rafael Robb was a tenured Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on gaming theory. He was the last one anyone would suspect of murder! Was he gaming the legal system? Find out on Ivy League Murders!

Princeton’s Thomas Gilbert, Jr: The Dark Side of Privilege Aug 13, 2020

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Most parents would have walked away after their child committed murder, but Shelley Gilbert did not. After her son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., shot and killed his 70-year-old father on January 4th 2015, she paid for his defense attorneys, expert witnesses, and psychiatric examinations. The Gilberts, who had a vacation house in the Hamptons, paid for their son’s NYC apartment, as well as his bills, his membership in the Maidstone Club, and they paid him an allowance. Mr. Gilbert was “spoiled,” said the prosecution during his trial, but his mother said it was all therapeutic.

Jason Bohn: Columbia University’s Ticking Time Bomb Aug 06, 2020

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After a horrendous childhood, Jason Bohn got his life together, went to Columbia and became a successful Wall Street lawyer. None of the surface success could contain his rage toward women. Like Othello, Bohn was consumed with an irrational jealousy that ended in murder.

Michael Ross: Cornell Serial Killer Jul 30, 2020

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Michael Bruce Ross was a serial killer who was executed in Connecticut after he waived his right to appeal. It was the first execution in New England in 45 years, and makes the Roadside Strangler the only Ivy League Graduate to have been on death row.

From Yale to Jail: Dirk Greineder Jul 23, 2020

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Join us this week on a walk in the woods that ended in tragedy and pulled back the veil of Ivy League perfection to reveal a disturbed mind.

Ann and Billy Woodward: "The Ideal Couple" Jul 02, 2020

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Billy Woodward, a Harvard Legacy, was shot and killed by his wife, Ann. Was it an accident or intentional with a subsequent cover up? You be the judge.

Ivy League Murders Trailer Jun 29, 2020

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The trailer for the podcast Ivy League Murders, with Sarah Alcorn and Laura Rodrigues McDonald.

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