Murder in the Stacks · Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away

On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English ataPennaState, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the universityOCOs main campus inaState College.a For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with theaPennsylvaniaaState Police and local citizens worked tirelessly to find her killer. The mystery was eventually solvedOCoafter the death of the murderer. This book will reveal the story behind what has been a scary mystery for generations ofaPennaStateastudents and explain why the Pennsylvania State Police failed to bring her killer to justice.More than a simple true crime story, the book weaves together the events, culture, and attitudes of the late 1960s, memorializing Betsy Aardsma and her time and place in history.a"