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Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

The Murder of Betsy Aardsma at Penn State

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Allison and Mike

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Betsy's boyfriend David Wright described Betsy as “a very brilliant person, extremely smart with a good sense of humor. Just a wonderful person."

Unfortunately they would never get to plan that engagement they had been talking about. This is the story of the murder of Betsy Aardsma, as told by Allison.

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Sources:

  • Wikipedia
  • NBC News: Unsolved Murder of Penn State student Betsy Aardsma haunts community 52 years after she was stabbed in the library stacks 
  • Oxygen True Crime: Mystery Still Surrounds Murder of Penn State Gradute Student Found Dead in the School’s Library
  • Lancaster Online: Who Killed Betsy Aardsma? After 41 years, a cold case warms with questions connecting the victim, stabbed in a Penn State library to a Lancaster geologist known for a hot temper & litigious behavior. 
  • Lancaster Online: 2 authors peg Lancaster native as mystery murderer of 19 year old Penn State student in 1969
  • Cold Case: The Murder of Betsy Aardsma at Penn State
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    Seductress Dubstep by Audionautix http://audionautix.com
    Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

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    Transcript

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    0:00.0

    Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime and Coffee. My name's Allison. And I'm Mike.

    0:08.8

    And we're back at you again this week. Just wanting to ask you a little favor. If you're enjoying what you're hearing, we would really appreciate you guys rating us on Apple Podcast.

    0:19.9

    Five star review, if you don't mind. And a couple words

    0:23.0

    wouldn't hurt either. Like, hey, great job. Looking forward to whatever. Yeah, we certainly

    0:26.7

    would appreciate it. It would mean a lot to us and maybe help us out a bit. Yeah, it's a free way

    0:30.7

    to support the show. Exactly. Ultimately, you know, this would be a great full-time job.

    0:34.8

    It would be. Although I'd imagine there's probably quite a bit of like mental things you go through

    0:40.0

    as you're researching a lot of these murders and stuff.

    0:42.0

    Like, can you imagine some of the bigger ones that are just constantly doing this all the time?

    0:45.6

    I don't know.

    0:46.3

    I think I could handle it.

    0:47.8

    Compartmentalize is what you do.

    0:49.3

    Right, right.

    0:50.3

    You know, we all know there's crazy business out in the world. We just need to separate it from our day to day life.

    0:56.6

    Right.

    0:57.1

    A lot of times on Twitter and Facebook, oh, which we are on Twitter.

    1:00.9

    And Twitter, not Facebook, but Twitter and Instagram at Crime and Coffee 2, the number two. I do a lot of the social media, and there's been some arguments over whether podcasts like this are good or bad,

    1:13.1

    or some people are mad and say, you know, you shouldn't bring stories up again.

    1:17.3

    You know, it doesn't allow the families to cope and everything and just kind of get rid of it.

    1:20.8

    But at the same time, it's public knowledge.

    1:22.4

    And I always say part of being a human is telling stories.

    1:26.7

    Right. You know, maybe, you know, some are fictionalized and some are, you know, nonfiction.

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