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Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? Her Last Night on Campus
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
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