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Stabbed in the Stacks

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The murder of Betsy Aardsma is an American murder case dating from November 1969, in which a 22-year-old graduate student was murdered by a single stab wound inside the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in University Park, Pennsylvania.

Though Aardsma's murder remains officially unsolved, local investigative journalists and two independent authors have published testimony and reports which strongly indicate Penn State geology professor Richard Haefner may have been responsible for her death, which has been described by one author as Pennsylvania's most infamous unsolved murder. The evidence indicating Haefner's guilt of Aardsma's murder is circumstantial. Haefner was never charged with her murder, and died in 2002.

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0:00.0

Discretion is advised.

0:10.0

Ten-minute murder.

0:35.0

Betsy Arzma was born on July 11, 1947 in Holland, Michigan.

0:39.1

She was born into a middle-class, religious, conservative family.

0:43.4

As a child, she showed great talent in both art and poetry.

0:47.0

As a teen, contrary to the way she had been raised,

0:51.3

Betsy started embracing some rather liberal and feminist views.

0:57.0

After her graduation from Holland High in 1965, she wanted to become a physician and give something back to those less fortunate. That fall, Betsy attended Hope College.

1:03.0

After two years, she transferred to the University of Michigan. It was there that she met David Wright.

1:10.0

Wright was Betsy's first real boyfriend, and he had also

1:13.3

planned on becoming a physician. Betsy graduated from the University of Michigan with honors in 1969

1:19.1

and planned on joining the Peace Corps to go to work in Africa. Although her relationship with Wright

1:25.1

would set her plans on a different course,

1:28.4

she could picture a future with him, but he wasn't seeing that same picture if she left for

1:33.9

another country. Wright would be attending school in Hershey, Pennsylvania, so Betsy enrolled

1:39.8

at Penn State to stay closer to him. She took school very seriously, but only eight weeks in,

1:46.9

she had already fallen behind on an English assignment. She spent the day before Thanksgiving

1:51.4

and part of Thanksgiving Day with Wright, his roommates, and their girlfriends. They even

1:56.6

discussed getting engaged around Christmas. That afternoon, on November 27th, Wright drove Betsy

2:03.2

to the bus stop so that she could head back to school. She had a meeting scheduled with a professor

2:08.1

to get advice on her research paper. At 4 p.m. on Friday, November 28th, Betsy met with

2:14.8

university professor Nicholas Tchaikovsky. They spent a few minutes exchanging ideas,

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