Ivy League Murders

After a horrendous childhood, Jason Bohn got his life together, went to Columbia and became a successful Wall Street lawyer. None of the surface success could contain his rage toward women. Like Othello, Bohn was consumed with an irrational jealousy that ended in murder.

Michael Bruce Ross was a serial killer who was executed in Connecticut after he waived his right to appeal. It was the first execution in New England in 45 years, and makes the Roadside Strangler the only Ivy League Graduate to have been on death row.

Join us this week on a walk in the woods that ended in tragedy and pulled back the veil of Ivy League perfection to reveal a disturbed mind.

Billy Woodward, a Harvard Legacy, was shot and killed by his wife, Ann. Was it an accident or intentional with a subsequent cover up? You be the judge.

The trailer for the podcast Ivy League Murders, with Sarah Alcorn and Laura Rodrigues McDonald.

A young, beautiful anthropology student was killed in Harvard Square in 1969. Her murder went cold for 50 years. Laura and I had no idea the pathways this case would lead to....Two different serial killers, same apartment building, what are the odds?

Leopold and Loeb were two wealthy students attending the University of Chicago in May of 1924, when they committed the "Crime of the Century", kidnapping and murdering 14-year old Bobby Franks, as a demonstration of their ostensible intellectual superiority. The boys thought they could carry out the perfect crime, and completely absolve themselves of any responsibility of what they had done. The F...

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