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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Young college sophomore found purple, DEAD, after 'HAZING'

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Stone Foltz, a business major at Bowling Green, dies after consuming a handle of alcohol during a pledge party. Foltz was taking part in a fraternity ritual. The Foltz family's attorney, Rex Elliott, says the 20-year-old was taken to a basement at an off-campus fraternity house, blindfolded and told he couldn’t leave until he finished the equivalent of 40 shots in a short time. Elliott says when Foltz was then left at his apartment alone. His blood alcohol was .394. Joining Nancy Grace today:Jim Piazza, Father of Timothy Piazza, Anti-Hazing Activist, Founding Member of the Anti Hazing Coalition and Parent United to Stop Hazing (PUSH)Rex H. Elliott - Foltz Family Attorney, Cooper & Elliott Co-Founder and Owner, cooperelliott.com, Twitter: @cooperelliott, Stone Folta GoFundMe: Search "Stone Foltz Memorial Fund"Dr. Susan Lipkins, Psychologist and Hazing Expert, Author: "Preventing Hazing", insidehazing.com,Justin Boardman - Former Special Victim's Unit Detective, West Valley City Police Department (Utah), Author (upcoming): " I WAS WRONG: An Investigators Battle-cry for Change Within the Special Victim's Unit" www.justinboardman.com Twitter: @boardman_trainDr. Priya Banerjee, M.D.  [BANNER-JEE] - Board Certified Forensic Pathologist, Anchor Forensic Pathology Consulting, Assistant Medical ExaminerJay Maguire - Parents and Alumni for Student Safety (PASS) Founder, www.EndHazing.org, Facebook: "Parents and Alumni for Student Safety"Amy Steigerwald - Reporter, WTOL 11, Bowling Green Graduate (2018), @amysteigerwald, Facebook: @AmySteigerwaldTV

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0:00.0

The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

0:07.0

How does a sophomore, a young sophomore at Bowling Green State University, and a dad,

0:25.5

along with so many other youngsters, dead at college and university all across our country.

0:34.5

He's just the latest.

0:36.5

Why?

0:37.5

And why can't it stop?

0:48.5

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

0:52.5

We think it's not real?

0:56.5

Take a listen to this.

0:59.5

What kind of name?

1:00.5

Well, one, what is your emergency?

1:02.5

Hi.

1:03.5

The one that we know is a non-responsive, hatred alcohol, like a lot of alcohol.

1:08.5

So where is he?

1:10.5

Well, we're at...

1:12.5

How old is your friend?

1:15.5

He's 20.

1:16.5

20?

1:17.5

Okay.

1:18.5

And what's he doing right now?

1:20.5

He's lying down on his side.

1:22.5

His face is really purple, and he's...

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