Several years ago, I heard about an unsolved murder that took place on my college campus back in 1973. I wrote a blog post about it and was surprised when I received messages from people thanking me for bringing attention to the case, where 19-year-old Virginia Olson was brutally sexually assaulted and murdered. I dug into the news archives, took a trip back to campus, and produced Episode 94 on the case in April of last year. Little did I know that another fellow UNC-Asheville alum was also doing research into the murder, and was in the process of writing a book about it with his brother, a police officer here in North Carolina. In this episode, share a conversation I recently had with the two men about the publication of their new book, “A Murder on Campus: The Professor, The Cop, and North Carolina’s Most Notorious Cold Case.”
