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

Britain should have been in class to take her exam. A dedicated and standout

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 Lowe 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, J 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 villages were forming

and animals were domesticated for use in agriculture.

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