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Episode 395: On a cold December day in 1983, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was shaken by a deeply unsettling crime. Dr. Edith Wightman, a respected scholar, was discovered dead in her office: bound with tape, handcuffed, and suffocated with a cloth. The investigation took an even stranger turn when police arrested Michael Allen Crowley, a chemist from Welland, who had been seen on campus in disguise, dressed in women’s clothing and a wig. With no personal connection to the victim, and the bizarre methods used, the murder left students and faculty reeling, and raised questions still unanswered to this day.
Sources:
A Brief History Of McMaster University
History of McMaster
WIGHTMAN, Edith Mary | Rutgers
Dec 19, 1983, page 1 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com
Dec 24, 1983, page 16 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com
Edith Wightman - Search - Newspapers.com™
Michael Alan Crowley - Search - Newspapers.com™
"72 Hours: True Crime" Murder on Campus (TV Episode 2005)
Canadian News Briefs - UPI Archives
Edith Wightman | Wikipedia
1984_3Winter
https://www.reddit.com/r/McMaster/comments/jl1ew5/trying_to_find_details_of_on_campus_death/
Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR
Wightman: Gallia Belgica (Book Review)
Detectives say Robert Garrow now 'best suspect' in 1973 Komorowski murder | CBC News
Adele Komorowski Homicide
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Episode 395: On a cold December day in 1983, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was shaken by a deeply unsettling crime. Dr. Edith Wightman, a respected scholar, was discovered dead in her office: bound with tape, handcuffed, and suffocated with a cloth. The investigation took an even stranger turn when police arrested Michael Allen Crowley, a chemist from Welland, who had been seen on campus in disguise, dressed in women’s clothing and a wig. With no personal connection to the victim, and the bizarre methods used, the murder left students and faculty reeling, and raised questions still unanswered to this day.
Sources:
A Brief History Of McMaster University
History of McMaster
WIGHTMAN, Edith Mary | Rutgers
Dec 19, 1983, page 1 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com
Dec 24, 1983, page 16 - The Hamilton Spectator at Newspapers.com
Edith Wightman - Search - Newspapers.com™
Michael Alan Crowley - Search - Newspapers.com™
"72 Hours: True Crime" Murder on Campus (TV Episode 2005)
Canadian News Briefs - UPI Archives
Edith Wightman | Wikipedia
1984_3Winter
https://www.reddit.com/r/McMaster/comments/jl1ew5/trying_to_find_details_of_on_campus_death/
Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR
Wightman: Gallia Belgica (Book Review)
Detectives say Robert Garrow now 'best suspect' in 1973 Komorowski murder | CBC News
Adele Komorowski Homicide
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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