It was the morning of January 7, 1969, and 23-year-old Harvard University graduate student

Jane Britain should have been in class to take her exam.

A dedicated and stand-out student of anthropology, Jane wouldn't have missed a test unnecessarily.

Her boyfriend took note of her absence, and as soon as class was over, he went to find

Jane at her apartment in Cambridge.

Jane was later discovered by her boyfriend and neighbors dead in her bed, the victim

of a violent attack.

Police chased down what little information they had.

Some evidence leaked to the media spiraled into sensational headlines of rumored ancient

burial rituals with suspicion cast on Jane's own anthropology classmates.

While other clues at the crime scene led some officials to theorize that the attack

was random and opportunistic.

Investigators would come up empty-handed in the case for decades, until finally DNA evidence

closed the unsolved mystery of the murdered Harvard student for good.

I'm Kylie Lo, and this is the story of Jane Britain, on Dark Down East.

Those who knew her described Jane Sanders Britain as talented, with a zest for life.

She loved to paint and cook, she appreciated fine literature and classical music, especially

Bach, and she played the organ.

She earned her undergraduate degree at Radcliffe College, where her father, Jay Boyd Britain,

was a vice president, and she was an enormously confident student in her graduate studies in

anthropology at Harvard University.

Her primary interest was the neolithic period from 5,000 to 6,000 BC, when the earliest

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