Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot

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by Michael Arntfield


  occupations attracting, 77–78, 122

  signatures of, 39

  in the workplace, 190

  psychosexual dysfunctions, 47

  Q

  Quick, Thomas, 255–56

  R

  Raasch, Janet, 247–53, 259, 268, 296

  Rader, Dennis, 263

  Ramirez, Richard, 61, 234–35

  Randolph-Macon Women’s College, 151–52

  rape, 30, 149

  Reagan, Ronald, 238

  religious mania, 263–67

  Rennebohm’s, 25

  revenger criminals, 182

  Reynolds, Henry, 192

  Ridgway, Gary, 182–83, 263

  Rifleman, Scott, 250

  RIGEL, 196–97

  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge), 62

  Robinson, John Edward, 266

  Roddenberry, Gene, 275–76

  Rolling, Danny, 68

  roman à clef, 73

  Roselawn Memory Gardens, 222

  Rossmo, D. Kim, 195–96, 197

  Rothschild, Christine, 11–14, 134, 267–68

  background of, 11–12

  Bennett compared with, 104–6

  body of, 37–38

  campus police and, 32–34

  as cold case, 70–71

  on cold-case playing cards, 295

  crime scene damage, 38–42

  depression of, 13–14

  dungarees found, 52–53

  final 48 hours of, 45–49

  forgotten, 131

  fortieth anniversary of death of, 273–74

  gloves of, 41, 285–87, 288

  impact on family of death, 273–74

  Jorgensen on, 283–87, 288–89

  Jorgensen rebuffed by, 29

  Linda’s commitment to investigating, 114–15, 261–62

  Lucas and, 257

  murderer’s clothes and weapon, 64–65, 289–90

  murder of, 31–35

  police incompetence on, 44

  reward offered for information on, 130

  routine of, 22, 23, 27, 45–46, 47

  signatures in death of, 39–40

  stalker of, 25–26, 30, 47

  umbrella of, 42–43

  victimology on, 45–47

  Williamson murder compared with, 136–37, 141–43

  Ypsilanti Ripper compared with, 153–55

  Rothschild, Patria, 12

  routine activities theory, 46, 213

  Ruedisili, Dean, 57

  Russ family murder–suicide, 13

  Ryan, Phil, 242–43, 253

  S

  Sahara Hotel-Casino, 118

  Salinger, J. D., 224

  San Francisco Chronicle, 120, 136

  San Francisco Examiner, 135

  Satanic cults, 244

  Schoolgirl Murders, 243

  Schroeder Funeral Home, 169

  scopophilias, 166–67

  Scullion, Don, 199

  secondary crime scenes, 101–7

  Seda, Eddie, 121

  Sentinel, Milwaukee, 51–53, 115–16, 118, 220

  serial killers

  animal cruelty and, 178

  as celebrities, 18

  changes in activities of, 233

  cities in the making of, 21

  cold-case playing cards, 293–96

  FBI on, 238

  first, 3

  geographic profiling of, 195–98

  Holmes, 15–17

  honing of their craft by, 138

  indicators of, 43, 102, 208

  making sense of, 16

  myth making about, 21–25, 76–77, 90–91

  narcissism of, 21, 58, 67, 94, 115, 122, 152, 170, 176, 205, 224–25, 244, 264, 280

  narrative theory of, 181–82

  profiling, 238–42

  signatures vs. MOs of, 39

  teams, 243–47

  Western University class on, 276–79

  Serling, Rod, 147

  Servant Girl Annihilator, 20

  set-and-run killers, 80

  sexual homicides, 95, 180–81, 185

  Share, Bill, 51, 115–16, 118, 155, 178, 220

  Shaw, Linda, 252

  The Shield, 197

  Short, Elizabeth, 132–34

  Shuffle Inn, 217

  Sierra Singles, 175–78, 206, 224, 290

  signatures, criminal, 40–41, 43, 141, 208

  MOs vs., 39

  stability of, 201–2

  Simon, Scott, 192

  Sirhan, Sirhan, 90

  602 Club, 156–57, 158

  Slender Man, 4–5, 35

  Smiley Face Killer, 268–72, 274

  Snow White, 227

  soft targets, 15

  Madison as, 98

  at UW, 23

  World’s Fair of 1893, 15–17

  somnophilia, 25, 41, 47

  Son of Sam, 9, 167

  Søren B. Jorgensen Foundation, 262

  Southside Strangler, 233

  souvenirs, 41–42, 109

  disorganized offenders and, 181

  Williamson and, 136, 138

  Souviron, Richard, 235

  Speerschneider, Julie, 150, 156–59, 179–80

  blaming the victim and, 184–86

  on cold-case playing cards, 293

  geographic knowledge of killer, 192

  Hall compared with, 185–86, 183–87

  murders linked to, 194–95, 198–99, 202–3, 258, 295–96

  Raasch compared with, 247–48, 249

  X-Factor in investigation on, 191–92

  Spencer, Timothy Wilson, 233

  stalkers, 24–26, 30–31

  Lass and, 122

  Sterling Hall

  bombing of, 77, 78–84, 86–87, 131

  as magnet for crime, 85–86

  protests at, 75–76

  Rothschild at, 36–38, 49–50

  Stevens Point Journal, 251

  Stewart, Shirley, 164–65, 193–99, 202–3, 258, 295–96

  Stopwatch Gang, 84

  stranger-obsessional stalking, 30

  stranger-on-stranger murders, 189–90, 217–19

  stranger sexual predators, 30

  strangulation, 185

  Strobel, Lee, 264–65, 275

  Students for a Democratic Society, 10

  Sullivan, Mary, 230

  Summerfest, 52

  Summer of Love, 9

  Summer of Sam, 9

  surface burials, 127

  suspectology, 43–44, 128–29, 240

  sweetheart murders, 169–73

  T

  targeted strangers, 47, 122

  Taylor, Lonnie, 232–33, 234–35

  team killers, 243–47

  telephone scatalogia, 25–26

  terrorism, domestic, 81–88

  Teten, Howard, 241, 242

  Teten technique, 242

  Texarkana Phantom, 167

  Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 4

  Texas Wesleyan University, 134

  The Things They Carried (O’Brien), 73

  This Is Your Life, 177, 223

  Thompson, Hunter S., 73

  Tomaszewski, Linda, 298–300

  background of, 7–11

  baiting of Jorgensen by, 164, 208

  Baron as source for, 177–79

  Bennett case and, 109–10

  campus police and, 57

  during Christine’s murder, 32–33

  commitment of to Rothschild investigation, 114–15, 269, 296–298

  crime-scene behavior search by, 134, 205–6

  danger of the hunt by, 153

  fortieth anniversary memorial by, 273

  friendship with Christine, 14

  information shared with police by, 65–66, 109, 139, 299

  investigation by, 52

  Jorgensen one step ahead of, 163–64

  Jorgensen’s family investigated by, 89–95

  on Jorgensen’s prior victims, 103–4

  Jorgensen tracked by, 73–79

  on Lass mu
rder, 130, 205–6

  Las Vegas investigation, 120–28

  Los Angeles investigation, 268, 270

  Love Pirate clues and, 75, 89–96, 163, 223–27

  on Marz murder, 222

  in Milwaukee PD, 96, 115, 116

  phone call from Jorgensen to, 297, 291

  at the Sentinel, 51–54

  smoke pits investigations by, 57–62

  at UW, 22–24

  Valentine cards from, 215, 272, 290

  in Virginia and Michigan, 155

  Western Union class and, 285–97

  Williamson murder and, 141–42

  Ypsilanti Ripper and, 151

  Tony’s Chop Suey Restaurant, 150

  Toole, Ottis, 246–49

  Toronto Metropolitan Police Department, 149

  To Tell the Truth, 170

  tragedian criminals, 182

  trapper offenders, 266–67

  Trimmer, Sargeant, 39, 41–42

  trophies, 42

  Tunnel of Doom, 213–14

  The Twilight Zone, 152

  Tylenol poisonings, 84

  typological approach, 246

  U

  UC Davis pepper-spray incident, 110

  umbrellas, 43, 136

  University of Florida, Gainesville, 68

  University of Wisconsin (UW)–La Crosse, 268–72

  University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison, 7

  campus police, 32–34, 124

  counterculture at, 9–10

  dormitories, 23–24

  Hall murder, 123–29

  Lake Forest murder, 165–69

  Memorial Library, 27

  Smiley Face Killer, 268–74

  Sterling Hall bombing, 76–77, 78–85

  University of Wisconsin (UW)–Stevens Point, 247–49

  Urso, Steve, 184–85

  US Army Mathematics Research Center, 49

  UW. See University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison

  V

  Valentine Sally, 206–8

  Vampire of Düsseldorf, 3

  vandalized love map, 201

  vanishing hitchhiker, 145–47, 154, 158–59, 184, 248

  Vantage Press, 224, 226

  Van Valkenberg, Phil, 36–38, 41

  vehicle, access to, 180

  victim facilitation, 186–87

  victimology, 44–46

  of Bennett, 96–97

  failure of in Madison, 199–200

  Hall, 123, 128–29, 180, 192

  Lass, 121–22

  routine activities theory and, 212

  Speerschneider, 179, 191–91

  Valentine Sally, 208

  Williamson, 142

  Ypsilanti Ripper, 152–55

  victim typology, 192–93, 209–10

  Vidocq Society, 277

  Vietnam War protests, 75–76, 124

  Vollmer, August, 113

  voluntary false confessions, 140

  W

  Wagner, John, 127

  Wales, Thomas, 252

  Walker, Texas Ranger, 242

  Walsh, Adam, 244

  Walsh, John, 250

  War on Drugs, 238

  Waukesha, Wisconsin, 35

  weak denials, 288

  Weather Underground, 9

  Weiberger, Lauren, 73

  Welles, Orson, 192

  Western University, Canada, 276–79

  West Memphis Three, 190, 292

  Williams, “Killer Colonel” Russell, 77

  Williamson, Judith, 135–43, 151

  Ypsilanti Ripper compared with, 152–55

  Wisconsin, criminals from, 3–5

  Wisconsin State Journal, 157, 184, 220

  Witte Hall, 23–24

  World’s Fair of 1893, 14–15

  Worth, Adam, 110

  X

  X-Factor, 187–91

  Y

  Yahara River, 192

  Ypsilanti Ripper, 151–55

  Z

  Zamastil, William, 148–50, 211, 256

  Zimmerman, Brittany, 296

  Zodiac Killer, 120–21, 125, 134, 167, 265

  killings attributed to, 135–43

  zoosadism, 178

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Photo © 2017 Richard Bain

  Bestselling author Michael Arntfield is a veteran police officer, professor, and television host. Known by his students as “Profficer,” an endearing blend of his academic and law enforcement professions, he teaches criminology at Western University and is a previous visiting Fulbright Chair at Vanderbilt University. With fifteen years of experience as a police officer, Arntfield offers a unique perspective into unsolved murder cases that combines suspenseful storytelling, academic knowledge, and investigative technology. He is the lead investigator on the true-crime series To Catch a Killer on the Oprah Winfrey Network in Canada and is the author of Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada’s Serial Killer Capital. He is also director of the Murder Accountability Project in the United States and both the founder and director of the Western University Cold Case Society in Canada.

  When he isn’t teaching, investigating cold cases, or writing about them, he is researching long-term crime trends and developing new television projects. His latest research is on cyberbullying, social media, and psychopathy.

 

 

 


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