Paula Lavigne: Murder at the U
Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This is our second ESPN story about the intersection between sports and murder. ESPN was asked by the Miami-Dade Police to look into the 2006 murder of a star football player at the University of Miami. What reporter Paula Lavigne found was a complicated victim, a questionable suspect, and a police department that likely regrets calling ESPN to begin with. She tells me about the story at the center of her podcast: “Murder at the U."
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| 1:09.4 | I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm also the co-host of the podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right, and throughout my career, research for my many audio and book projects has taken me around the world. |
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| 1:47.7 | This is our second ESPN story about the intersection between sports and murder. |
| 1:53.9 | ESPN was asked by the Miami-Dade Police to look into the 2006 murder of a star football player |
| 1:59.8 | at the University of Miami. What reporter Paula |
| 2:02.5 | Levine found was a complicated victim, a questionable suspect, and a police department that likely |
| 2:08.5 | regrets calling ESPN to begin with. She tells me about the story at the center of her podcast, |
| 2:14.7 | Murder at the U. |
| 2:20.4 | How did you run across this story? |
| 2:23.1 | I mean, this story's been around for a long time, I guess. |
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