Students try to crack famous cold cases

CNN ^ | 11 June 2008 | By Ann O'Neill

[BlackVeil]

CNN is following four Bauder College students as they build their case files in the Chandra Levy and Natalee Holloway investigations. The Campus Crime Club is part of CNNU, which features student perspectives on news and trends from colleges across the United States. 1 of 3 ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The homicide cop, the prosecutor, the stalking expert and the psychic fielded questions about two unsolved mysteries in a large, sunny room with a skeleton laid out on a table and timelines posted on the walls. The topic was Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old Bureau of Prisons intern whose 2001 disappearance prompted an investigation that exposed an affair with a congressman, but didn't lead to any arrests. ... Beth Holloway, Natalee's mother, spoke in person with the crime club earlier this year. She thanked the students for taking another look at her daughter's case. Holloway, an 18-year-old graduate of Mountain Brook High School near Birmingham, Alabama, disappeared in May 2005 while on a class trip to Aruba. She was last seen with three young men, all locals, who have been arrested and questioned several times. Holloway's body has never been found, and no one has been charged with a crime. ...At the end of the year, students at the three campuses will compare notes, and then write and forward a final report to law enforcement that says whether the case is solvable. Past cases include Tupac Shakur, the hip-hop artist gunned down in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Wayne Williams, the man convicted in the Atlanta child murders case. Students found the Williams case solvable, but Shakur's slaying was ruled "undetermined." This year's Levy and Holloway investigations seem to carry special meaning for the students. ...

[ClearCase_guy]

I remember cracking open some cold ones when I was in college.

[Rembrandt]

It’s CNN. Everyone should know the desired answer — Boooosh did it!

[Leo Carpathian]

Here is the good case for them:
BJ Clintoon really had sex with Monica, lied and got away with it.
Follow the Monica money, bag and diet “deals”, see how much money she made thanks to saving the blue dress.

[buck jarret]

If they are going to do this, they should use genuinely obscure, forgotten cold cases that never got attention rather than those that have been obsessed over by numerous professionals and by the media in various venues over many years.

[wideminded]

The homicide cop, the prosecutor, the stalking expert and the psychic fielded questions about two unsolved mysteries in a large, sunny room with a skeleton laid out on a table and timelines posted on the walls.

A psychic!

I wonder whose idea it was to give the psychic credibility by having them speak to a college class.

[buck jarret]

good point. very questionable

[valkyry1]

//see how much money she made thanks to saving the blue dress//

Well she saved her life, they were going to make her out as a nut/slut and then a bad accident would happen to her.

I still dont think Chandra Levi was a random homicide.

[BigBobber]

What about Nicole Brown Simpson? That murder case was never solved...

[buck jarret]

This is an excellent and puzzling case.

Tara Calico, missing from Belen, N.M., since 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Calico

For the photograph:
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2007/08/06/the-strange-tale-of-tara-leigh-calico-missing-since-september-20-1988-from-belen-new-mexico-part-i/