WVU Coed Murders

Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or had been victims of a madman poised to strike again. Then the handwritten letters began to arrive: "e;You will locate the bodies of the girls covered over with brush--look carefully. The animals are now on the move."e; Investigators didn't find too few suspects--they had far too many. There was the campus janitor with a fur fetish, the "e;harmless"e; deliveryman who beat a woman nearly to death, the nursing home orderly with the bloody broomstick and the bouncer with the "e;girlish"e; laugh who threatened to cut off people's heads. Local authors Geoffrey C. Fuller and S. James McLaughlin tell the complete story of the murders for the first time.