Friday, June 20, 2014

Most Broadcasted Murdered Students


An Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong was murdered in Tokyo after attending from Nicki Minaj concert. Two of her newly found friends were charged with quasi forcible indecency, as they were being held by the law enforcement for interrogation. Nicola Furlong is a 21-year-old Business and Language student at Dublin City University; she had been studying overseas for one-year exchange programme at the Takasaki City University of Economics. According to Japan's Mainichi reports, "An autopsy says that Furlong was likely strangled on May 24th." The investigation of Nicola Furlong's murder still continues.

There are more other related stories of murdered students that were garnered great media coverage throughout the world. Let’s take a look of other undergraduates who were bump off to death.
 
Dru Sjodin
Suspect: Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr.
She was born on September 26, 1981; Dru Katrina Siodin is a student of the University of North Dakota (UND). She’s a Gamma Phi Beta sorority member. A 50-year-old suspect Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr., a registered level 3 sex offender, was under arrest due to Siodin’s disappearance. The UND undergraduate’s body was discovered on April 17, 2004. Her body was found partially unclothed, stabbed, sexually assailed, and had several slashes on neck.
 
Brooke Wilberger
Suspect: Joel Patrick Courtney
A student from the State of Oregon was kidnapped and later murdered by Joel Patrick Courtney. Brooke Carol Wilberger’s disappearance was reported by the national media. The suspect kept Brook Carol alive throughout the night of May 24, 2004 before sexually attacking her the following day. Joel Patrick smacked her to death when she attempted to fight off. Wilberger’s case was one of the most broadcasted murder investigations in Oregon history.
 
Taylor Behl
Suspect: Benjamin Fawley
She was a 17 year- old first year college student from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Taylor Marie Behl disappeared about two weeks later on Labor Day. VCU authorities found her remains on a rural area in Mathews County, Virginia. The police narrowed down the track of the suspect Benjamin Fawley through a social media called MySpace. It also steered the crime squad to Behl’s body.
 
Michelle Gardner-Quinn
Suspect: Brian Rooney
Michelle Gardner-Quinn was abducted on October 7, 2006. She was an undergraduate student of University of Vermonth. A surveillance camera captured her and Brian Rooney heading north on Richmond.  A week after her disappearance, an examination revealed that she had been sexually assailed, beaten and strangled. Her dead body placed along the highway in the nearby town of Richmond.
 
Morgan Dana Harrington
Suspect: Unknown
Her death remains mystery and unresolved, Morgan Dana’s body was found after three months of her disappearance.  She was a 20 year-old Virginia Tech undergraduate who went missing from a Metallica concert. She’s wearing a Pantera tee when she was discovered outside of an apartment building not far away from the showground of the concert. 

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