Betty Gail Brown’s 1961 murder remains one of central Kentucky’s most haunting, officially unsolved campus homicides, with more than six decades of investigation failing to identify a definitive killer. On the night of October 26, 1961, 19‑year‑old sophomore Betty Gail Brown left her home on Lackawanna Road in Lexington to study for a biology exam at Forrer Hall on Transylvania University’s campus. Sometime around midnight she left the dorm; she never made it back home, and h

Sleeping pills, wine coolers and a typed suicide note from Kari Baker's nightstand *Content warning: domestic violence, sexual coercion, death investigation, and murder. If you or someone you know needs support, the U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). In April 2006, a 31-year-old elementary school teacher and mother of two— Kari Baker —was found dead in the bedroom of her Hewitt, Texas home, just outside Waco. Her husband, Matt Baker , a Baptist