The Sunday Edition: The high school class that found a serial killer
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The Times
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🗓️ 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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| 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. |
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| 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, |
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