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Forensic Files

Smoking Out A Killer

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other. Five years earlier, a student was assaulted and killed in her off-campus apartment, and a year after that, another student was killed in almost the same way. Police feared a serial killer was on the loose and they needed to determine what - or who - these women had in common.

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0:00.0

Up next, three college students are murdered.

0:04.0

It looks as if one person had killed them all.

0:08.0

He picked on young women, picked on pretty women.

0:11.0

Police immediately have a suspect.

0:13.0

In law enforcement terms, it's almost like winning the lottery.

0:16.0

But not everyone was convinced he was the one.

0:19.0

If he's gonna brag about three, why not four?

0:22.0

He mentioned all the other cases, but never mentioned Susan Schumann.

0:25.0

For 20 years, questions remained.

0:28.0

Until decades old evidence reveals the terrible truth.

0:33.0

It's a horrifying thing to think that there's more than one monster in your community at one time.

0:48.0

It was a week before the fall semester began in 1981.

0:52.0

Susan Schumann moved back to the campus of Southern Illinois University at Kampus.

0:57.0

She was an anxious to start her senior year.

1:01.0

She had just gotten a job at the radio station, and she was going to be doing some of the broadcast work.

1:09.0

There she made a selection tree, a description, narration, and dialogue.

1:15.0

On August 17, Susan left the radio station just before 6 p.m.

1:21.0

She planned to meet her girlfriend for dinner.

1:25.0

But she never arrived.

1:27.0

The friend who she was supposed to have supper with called her roommate Mary.

1:33.0

Mary did not know where she was at.

1:35.0

Later into the night approaching midnight, they started calling all their friends.

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