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The Story

The Sunday Edition: The high school class that found a serial killer

The Story

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Politics, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This episode was first published last August.


When Alex Campbell suggested to his high school sociology class that they would be investigating a 40-year-old cold case, he had no idea where it would lead. Within a year, a serial killer had been identified. In his next class, they decided to try and overturn a wrongful conviction. And they did. So just how did Mr. Campbell breed a class of super sleuths?

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Guest: Harriet Alexander, Senior Features Reporter, The Times and The Sunday Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Taryn Siegel.

Clips: WBIR Channel 10, NewsNation, WKRN News 2.


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Hi there. This is Terrence Siegel, a producer on the story.

0:41.3

So every weekend, we raid the story archives for an episode you might have missed that we think you'd love.

0:49.0

For this long Easter weekend, I'm choosing one of my all-time favorite episodes from the past year.

0:55.1

If you're on a long car ride back from visiting family or just enjoying some downtime at home,

1:00.0

you're really in for a treat with this one. Take a listen.

1:08.1

From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story.

1:11.1

I'm Luke Jones.

1:16.5

We're with Times reporter Harriet Alexander, and she's off on a curious reporting trip.

1:22.8

It's Tuesday morning at 9.43 a.m.

1:26.9

And I am driving through eastern Tennessee through the Blue Ridge

1:31.8

Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains. And I am on my way to a small place called

1:38.6

Elizabethton. It's a town of about 14,000 people. It's pretty remote and pretty rural. But despite that,

1:48.4

I am going to talk to some students and their teachers because they are really up to something

1:54.6

that I think is quite remarkable.

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