Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January. 1963 — The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall will handle investigations involving women and juveniles. In 1964, teenage romance turns to trouble, as high school gangs rumble all over town. An Edgewood HS girl entices the Verona boy she’s dating and four of his friends into an ambush at Peppermint Park, the carnival area on the far west side, where they are severely beaten with clubs and rubber hoses by a gang of 16 led by her other boyfriend, from Madison West. Police thwart a rematch rumble, set for a Verona gravel pit, after getting an anonymous tip. Days later, another two-timing teen is the focus as eleven students from East, La Follette, and Monona Grove High Schools battle with fists, clubs, and switchblades in the 2400 block of East Washington Avenue. Madison police also confiscate three switchblade knives from students at Central and West after a knife fight between two young teens at West, also over a girl.