ATHENS — The 22-year-old University of Georgia student from Roswell who was found slain in her off-campus home was sexually assaulted before her attacker strangled her, police said Saturday. There was no sign of forced entry into Jennifer Lynn Stone’s house and no indication of a struggle, said David Camp, bureau chief of the Athens-Clarke…
ATHENS — Responding to the first student homicide in almost a decade, University of Georgia officials Friday urged parents to stress personal safety to their college-bound children and to establish routine check-in times. “I’m not sure some parents understand that the university is not being the parent while their kids are here. The vast majority…
ATHENS — Jennifer Stone had planned to listen to country music while relaxing with friends on their porch Friday. But she never got a chance. The 22-year-old University of Georgia advertising student from Roswell was killed sometime between late Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning. About 7 p.m. Thursday, several classmates discovered her body in…
University of Georgia sophomore Dana Getzinger was cozy in bed on Jan. 17, 1988, when a man wearing a ski mask and gloves snuck through a sliding glass door, past three sleeping roommates and into her bedroom. “I woke up with a pillow over my face,” recalled Ms. Getzinger, now 23. She fought off her…
ATHENS — An autopsy shows that a 22-year-old University of Georgia student from Roswell who was found dead in her off-campus house was strangled, an Athens-Clarke County Police Department official said Friday night. “I don’t think we have a situation here to put the town in a panic,” said police bureau Chief David Camp, who…
University senior Jennifer L. Stone, 22, was discovered dead in her one-bedroom apartment in downtown Athens early Thursday evening. Athens-Clarke County police have ruled the incident a homicide. Police said Stone was discovered by three friends in her apartment at 187 Hull St. around 7:15 p.m. Police believe Stone was killed early Thursday morning. Police…