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Going West: True Crime

Christine Rothschild: The Campus Window Watcher // 605

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.610.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In May of 1968, an 18-year-old college student's body was found brutally murdered in some bushes on the camps of her Wisconsin college. She had eaten breakfast and gotten ready for church that morning, never making it off campus before she was attacked. But this sudden and disturbing discovery led to a shocking twist: that a middle-aged medical resident who was obsessed with her may have been behind it… This is the murder of Christine Rothschild.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans?

0:16.4

I'm your host Heath.

0:17.3

And I'm your host, Daphne.

0:18.7

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

0:22.7

Hope you're doing well. Thank you so much for tuning into this episode. This case that we have for you

0:28.0

guys today feels like a long forgotten, lesser known murder case, not unlike any we've covered before,

0:35.3

but one that has a very strong suspect at its center

0:38.3

that will disturb you and it needs so much more attention. I don't know how I stumbled

0:44.2

upon this case recently because it didn't come recommended, but I am always looking for cases

0:49.6

like this one that needs more of a spotlight put on it, but also has really eerie and unsettling details

0:55.5

that cannot fully be explained, you know?

0:57.6

Yeah, this is one of the darker, kind of more creepier cases that we're going to cover on

1:01.9

this show.

1:02.5

I think especially because it takes place in the late 1960s on a college campus.

1:07.0

We're going to be talking about an older man.

1:09.5

Those are always the ones that kind of get you like before the age of technology, you know?

1:15.4

Exactly.

1:16.2

So, without further ado, let's dive into this one.

1:19.8

All right, guys, this is episode 605 of going west, so let's get into it.

1:26.5

Okay. five of going west, so let's get into it. In May of 1968, an 18-year-old college student was found brutally murdered in some

1:58.6

bushes on the campus of her Wisconsin College. She had eaten

2:03.5

breakfast and gotten ready for church that morning, never making it off campus before she was

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