Becky Cooper - - - When Becky Cooper was a junior at Harvard, her friend s boyfriend told her a story about the murder of a graduate student in the university s archaeology department. This was in the 1960s, he said. The victim had been having an affair with one of her professors a romance that began while they were on a dig together in Iran. When he tried to end the relationship, she wouldn t let it go. So he murdered her, then hid her body under his coat and carried her to his office. There, he adorned her naked body in the necklaces they d unearthed on the dig. He covered her in red ocher a powdered pigment found in ancient burial sites. Harvard covered it up, and the killer went free.
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Book World: Harvard students told a lurid tale of a long-ago murder. Was it true? Marin Cogan, The Washington Post Dec. 11, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence Becky Cooper - - - When Becky Cooper was a junior at Harvard, her friend s boyfriend told her a story about the murder of a graduate student in the university s archaeology department. This was in the 1960s, he said. The victim had been having an affair with one of her professors - a romance that began while they were on a dig together in Iran. When he tried to end the relationship, she wouldn t let it go. So he murdered her, then hid her body under his coat and carried her to his office. There, he adorned her naked body in the necklaces they d unearthed on the dig. He covered her in red ocher - a powdered pigment found in ancient burial sites. Harvard covered it up, and the killer went free.
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