Gorgeous College Professor-Turned-Bloody-Pulp, Eyes Gouged by Love-Obsessed Co-Worker

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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When state troopers arrive at Lauret Savoy’s home, just after midnight, they find the acclaimed author lying in a pool of blood. She had been severely beaten. By Savoy’s side is her friend of 14 years and colleague at Mount Holyoke College, art professor Rie Hachiyanagi. It was Hachiyanagi who called 911. Savoy tells the police she can't offer any information on the person who attacked her. The professor is rushed to a local hospital with severe blunt force trauma. She has multiple broken bones and fractures in her face, numerous cuts, and puncture wounds and there was evidence that the assailant had tried to gouge out the Savoy's eyes. At the hospital, Lauret Savoy tells police, she lied, out of fear. Her attacker was her long time friend, Rie Hachiyanagi. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, author “Red Flags,” www.wendypatrickphd.com, 'Today with Dr. Wendy' on KCBQ in San Diego, Twitter: @WendyPatrickPHDDr. Bethany Marshall - California Psychoanalyst, www.drbethanymarshall.com, Netflix show: 'Bling Empire'Dr. Kendall Crowns – Chief Medical Examiner, Tarrant County, Texas, Lecturer: The University of Texas and Texas A&M, Affiliated Faculty: University of Texas Medical BranchLisa M. Dadio - Former New Haven Police Lieutenant, University of New Haven Senior Lecturer, Director University of New Haven Forensic Science Department "Center for Advanced Policing"Domenic Poli - News Reporter, The Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, Mass.), www.recorder.com, Facebook: "TheRecorderNewspaper," Twitter: @TheRecorderNews

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
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1:05.8	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
1:13.2	How does a gorgeous New England College professor end up
1:19.3	brutally beaten, stabbed in the face, her eyes nearly gouged out, horrific injuries,
1:30.8	her bloody body left lying in the floor. How does that happen to a lady college professor?
1:49.5	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
1:51.3	You know, we often think of college professors kind of ballading with spectacle glasses,
2:06.4	carrying books and papers, and let's just say a plaid blazer with the elbow pads in a world of their own,
2:25.7	never colliding with the world of crime. Well, what happened to luretsavoy changes
2:35.7	all of that? Again, thanks for being with us here at Fox Nation in Series XM111. Take a listen to this.
2:42.2	Moments after opening the door, they were hit over the head with something hard and then repeatedly attacked.
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