Hi, Crime Genkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And the story I have for you today is about a young woman whose life was senselessly taken

from her during what was supposed to be one of the most exciting times of her life.

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month here in the US. And this year, we're

zooming in on one of the most overlooked hotbeds of domestic violence activity. And that's

college campuses. This episode was actually suggested by a few of our fan club members

who wanted us to share this story that still haunts everyone involved even 12 years later.

This is the story of yardily love.

It's a little after 2.15am on Monday, May 3, 2010. And two students at the University of

Virginia named Caitlin Whiteley, who goes by Katie. And Felipe Ouchern are walking to Katie's

apartment to turn in for the night after being outed a few sports bars with some other friends.

After they get inside, Katie decides to go wake up one of her roommates, yardly love.

And yardily had been out with them earlier in the evening before coming home because she

was tired. Now that Katie has returned with Felipe, she wants to go wake her up just so

they aren't the only two awake in the apartment. But when Katie goes to yardly's bedroom,

she notices something concerning. There is a large splintered hole next to the door

knob. It's about 3 inches wide and it definitely wasn't there when she left. So Katie opens

the door and when she looks in, she sees yardily wearing only her underwear lying face down

on her bed. Katie walks over and kneels down next to her to see if she's okay thinking

that she might have passed out maybe from alcohol poisoning. Though that doesn't make sense

because even though yardily had been a little bit tipsy earlier that evening, she definitely

hadn't drunk enough to get alcohol poisoning. But it's literally the only thing that

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