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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

A MURDER ON CAMPUS-Brian and Cameron Santana

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On April 15, 1973, two high school students discovered Virginia Marie Olson’s body near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Olson’s murder was horrifically violent—she had been bound, raped, and stabbed to death, leaving the Asheville community in shock. The cold case that followed would span over 50 years, involving three generations of detectives and the Asheville Police Department and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation as they worked tirelessly to uncover the truth. Authors Brian and Cameron Santana and I discuss law enforcement’s dramatic efforts to find Olson’s killer, facing numerous obstacles along the way, from the abduction of another UNCA student in 1974 to a rape and murder victim's body discovered near Olson’s crime scene in 1978. Whispers about the killer's identity have circulated for decades, with theories ranging from an escaped mental health patient to one of North Carolina’s most notorious serial killers—until now. Their book, A MURDER ON CAMPUS is the first to tell the gripping story of this unsolved crime and the surprising twists that led to the authors' startling revelation of the killer’s identity. Written by two brothers, one a cop and the other a professor, they offer a unique and fascinating perspective on a case that has haunted Buncombe County for generations. This is the fascinating story of how two brothers—Brian, an English professor, the other a cop—tag team as authors to solve North Carolina’s most notorious cold case ....A MURDER ON CAMPUS: The Professor, The Cop, and North Carolina's Most Notorious Cold Case-Brian and Cameron Santana

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history,

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and the authors that have written about them.

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Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Nightstalker, BTK.

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Every week, another fascinating author

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talking about the most shocking and infamous killers

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in true crime history.

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True murder.

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With your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.

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Good evening.

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On April 15, 1973, two high school students discovered Virginia Marie Olson's body near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

0:56.3

Olson's murder was horrifically violent.

0:59.0

She had been bound, raped, and stabbed to death,

1:02.0

leaving the Asheville community in shock.

1:05.7

The cold case that followed would span over 50 years,

1:10.1

involving three generations of detectives and the

1:13.3

Asheville Police Department, and North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation, as they worked

1:20.3

tirelessly to uncover the truth. Authors Brian and Cameron Santana discuss law enforcement's dramatic efforts to find Olson's killer,

1:33.0

facing numerous obstacles along the way, from the abduction of another University of North Carolina student in 1974,

1:41.7

to a rape and murder victim's body discovered near Olson's crime scene in

1:47.7

1978. Whispers about the killer's identity have circulated for decades, with theories ranging

1:55.7

from an escaped mental patient to one of North Carolina's most notorious serial killers. Until now.

2:05.6

Their book, A Murder on Campus, is the first to tell the gripping story of this unsolved crime

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