Trailer - Season 10: You Killed Chris

Dakota Spotlight

James Wolner

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Season 10 of Dakota Spotlight, "You Killed Chris: A Friend's Fight for Justice" is set against the backdrop of the 1960s US counterculture and delves into the unresolved murder of 18-year-old college freshman Christine Rothschild. Hosted by James Wolner, “You Killed Chris” goes beyond the well-known Manson murders to explore this lesser-known case, focusing on the victim's friend’s relentless pursuit of the truth and the impact the crime had on the University of Wisconsin-Madison community. Two Good Books about Christine Rothschild Murder on the 56th Day: Linda Schulko Get the Kindle version of Linda’s great book. Linda donates all proceeds to charity. Get Linda’s book on Amazon https://amzn.to/4cX0DEe Cold: The Unsolved Murders of Seven Young Women: Kevin Damask Get Kevin’s book on Amazon https://amzn.to/43YFy8l A very special thanks goes out this season to Mari Zoerb Hansen, a 4th generation UW alum, for all the amazing research, fact checking and just stellar assistance with this season. Mari’s dedication and hard work on this story is in the memory of her late father, David Zoerb, who was finishing his senior year at UW when Christine was murdered. Thank you Mari. Check out the full catalog and everything Dakota Spotlight https://dakotaspotlight.com/ Subscribe to Spotlight PLUS https://dakotaspotlight.com/spotlight-plus/ Sign up for the Dakota Spotlight newsletter https://dakotaspotlight.com/newsletter/ Advertise your podcast or brand in Dakota Spotlight episodes [email protected] Email: [email protected] Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/dakotaspotlight X/Twitter: @dakotaspotlight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, true crime fans. I'm James, host of Dakota Spotlight, here to announce season 10 titled, You Killed Chris, a Friends Fight for Justice.
0:17.3	In May of 1968, a bright freshman co-ed named Christine left her dorm room for an early morning walk on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
0:28.6	Later that same day, Christine's body was found in a thicket of bushes.
0:33.6	She'd been strangled and stabbed to death.
0:36.6	The police were unable to identify or bring her killer to justice.
0:41.6	They escaped her killer and trying to get into the building,
0:44.2	or maybe the killer had kind of moved her body and was placed it there.
0:47.7	The police questioned everybody at the dorm.
0:51.5	Our lab technicians process was saying, yes, for several hours.
0:56.8	I probably eight or nine hours, probably, I don't know.
1:00.3	Season 10 is the deeply personal story of an extraordinary woman named Linda who vowed
1:06.4	to uncover and track down her friend's killer, a quest she pursued for over five decades.
1:13.2	Her pursuit to find Christine's killer mirrors Cold War espionage with Linda adopting the
1:18.7	skills of double agents and spies. Her relentless and calculated intelligence gathering efforts
1:25.0	even led her to infiltrate a suspect's family to face the man
1:29.8	she believes was responsible. And this was all done by people innocently sharing what they knew
1:36.8	without having not even an inkling that a Chris Rathschild existed in the world. And I was making
1:43.4	reports as a medical missionary to the CIA.
1:46.6	He lied about his family.
1:48.2	He lied about his rule in the World War.
1:51.4	Set against the backdrop of the late 1960s, a time of civil rights upheavals and anti-war protests,
1:58.1	this season captures a pivotal era in American history, all unfolding just
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