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Colleen was a popular, young math teacher from Massachusetts in 2013 when she was brutally murdered at the place she loved most DOING what she loved most.

Originally aired: May 27, 2021

Resources: 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8EH0Q_vKQ

 Sword and Scale: Episode 88

 Town Museum website: https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/welcome-to-danvers/

 Article: https://nthfmemorial.org/everyone-makes-a-difference-colleen-ritzer/

 Article: https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/ritzer-family-devastated-by-chism-sentence/article_0b1ab180-fd44-5185-ac7a-713d1103f262.html

 Article: https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/salem-state-university-mourns-death-of-teacher/article_2d62f8d7-db52-5b02-b378-efb59e8bf7aa.html

 University Blog: https://www.assumption.edu/assumption-achieves-university-status

 Article: https://www.wcvb.com/article/danvers-student-14-charged-in-death-of-math-teacher/8190166#

 Article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/22/timeline-murder-collen-ritzer-danvers-high-school/NBCbSUOpBWJcArUTpF1q3J/story.html

 Obituary: https://www.currentobituary.com/obit/132681

 Assumption college catalog ( Pg 25 used) https://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=undergraduate-catalogs

 Article: https://www.patriotledger.com/article/20151216/news/151217149

 Article: http://courtjunkie.com/timeline-colleen-ritzer-murder/

 Article: https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/02/26/chism-sentencing

 Article: https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/23/justice/massachusetts-philip-chism/index.html

Music Used:

Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne

Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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