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Outlore with Eleanor Neale

74: Teacher Murdered By Her Own Student

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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For today's case we're dipping into the archive as we look back at the murder of Colleen Ritzer, a teacher from Danvers High School, Massachusetts and the 14 year old student that was seen dragging a large bin around the school following his teacher's disappearance...   Trigger Warning: rape, psychosis Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1

Hello, usual disclaimer listeners. This week, we're going to be revisiting a kiss that I first

0:35.9

covered on my YouTube channel back in 2022. Today, we're going to delve revisiting a case that I first covered on my YouTube channel back in 2022.

0:38.8

Today we're going to delve into the life and murder of Colleen Ritzer,

0:42.8

a Massachusetts high school teacher,

0:44.9

and the 14-year-old student who came into suspicion

0:47.6

when he was seen dragging a large bin around the school

0:52.0

following his teacher's mysterious disappearance.

0:55.0

I'll be back with another case for you very soon, but in the meantime, I hope you appreciate this journey back through the archive.

1:02.0

Miss Ritzer was a ninth grade math teacher at Denver's high school, but on one October evening in 2013, Miss Ritzer failed to

1:13.6

return home from work. Later that evening, her brutalized dead body would be found in a

1:19.6

woods not far away from the school, and the killer wasn't so far away either.

1:26.6

Now, before we get into it, I do just want to give my usual

1:30.0

disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in

1:33.8

this video. This video is for educational purposes and everything that I'm about to say

1:38.3

is just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one

1:42.9

video. Just a couple of content warnings before we get into this one.

1:46.2

In this case we will be discussing themes of rape and psychosis.

1:50.4

So if either of those are things that you don't want to hear about right now,

1:53.6

feel free to click out of this video.

1:55.4

I'm sure I'll see you again some other time with a different case.

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