Christine Rothschild: The Campus Window Watcher // 605

About this episode

The episode discusses the brutal murder of college student Christine Rothschild in 1968 and the investigation that followed, revealing a possible obsession by a medical resident.

In May of 1968, an 18-year-old college student's body was found brutally murdered in some bushes on the camps of her Wisconsin college. She had eaten breakfast and gotten ready for church that morning, never making it off campus before she was attacked. But this sudden and disturbing discovery led to a shocking twist: that a middle-aged medical resident who was obsessed with her may have been behind it… This is the murder of Christine Rothschild.

Topics covered

• murder
• true crime
• college campus
• 1960s
• obsession
• investigation

Keywords

• Christine Rothschild
• murder
• college
• Wisconsin
• 1968
• true crime
• obsession
• investigation

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Wisconsin

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