Ep:106 | The Murder of Yeardley Love | The Obsessive Ex-Boyfriend and the Missed Warning Signs | Murder Unscripted

About this episode

This episode covers the tragic story of Yeardley Love, her abusive relationship, and the subsequent legal outcomes.

Yeardley Love was 22 years old and ten weeks from graduating from the University of Virginia. She was a D1 lacrosse player, a political science major with plans for law school in New York, and by every account, the kind of person who made every room warmer just by being in it. She was also in an abusive relationship with a men's lacrosse player, George Huguely V, that had been escalating for years. Obsessive contact. Jealousy. Physical violence. In February 2010, just weeks before her death, he had her pinned to a bed with his hands around her throat. Witnesses pulled him off. Yeardley told her mother. She even wrote a letter ending the relationship. Yeardley locked her door...but he kicked it in. In the early hours of May 3rd, 2010, Yeardley's roommate came home to find her unresponsive on her bed. She was gone. That's when police find an email from George in her inbox that read: 'I should have killed you.' In this episode, Melissa walks through the full story of Yeardley's life and death, including: the escalation pattern that followed every textbook sign of a dangerous relationship, the trial that convicted George Huguely of second-degree murder and sentenced him to 23 years…

People in this episode

Host: Melissa

Topics covered

• abusive relationships
• murder case
• warning signs
• trial
• One Love Foundation

Keywords

• Yeardley Love
• George Huguely V
• abuse
• murder
• One Love Foundation
• University of Virginia
• warning signs
• trial
• civil verdict

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: One Love Foundation, University of Virginia

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