Tag: The Atlanta Constitution
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Jennifer Lynn Stone was 22 when she was found raped and strangled on April 23 at her off-campus apartment in Athens, Ga. One year later, her murder remains unsolved. In her memory, her family and the University of Georgia have set up the Jennifer L. Stone Memorial Scholarship, full tuition for a student selected by…
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Frustrated with slow progress in a high-profile slaying case in Athens, a state representative has asked Gov. Zell Miller to request that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation take control of the probe. Rep. Charles “Judy” Poag (D-Eton) has asked that Mr. Miller order the GBI to replace the Athens/Clarke County Police Department as the principal…
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ATHENS — Other than a for-sale sign on one corner and a new restaurant on the other at the intersection of Clayton and Hull streets, little seems to have changed physically in the five months since University of Georgia student Jennifer Stone was found strangled in her off-campus house nearby. The changes, many Athenians say,…
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Students at Georgia’s five state universities have a one in 100 chance of being involved in a serious on-campus crime each year, according to new statistics. The federal Campus Security Act, which took effect this year, requires colleges to report crime statistics to the state. Georgia’s state colleges reported last week that nearly 800 serious…
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ATHENS — Two of the three men identified as possible suspects in the case of slain University of Georgia senior Jennifer Stone have prior convictions on charges of aggravated assault and burglary, public records show. The three — Earnest Brown, 29; Donald Wilson, 32; and Larry Darnell Brown, 34 — have been arrested in connection…
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ATHENS: Memorial service set for slain UGA senior. A memorial service for Jennifer Lynn Stone, a University of Georgia senior found dead in her off-campus house by friends Thursday evening, will be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Catholic Center on South Lumpkin Street. Friends of Ms. Stone, who was an advertising major and…
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ATHENS: Investigators from the Athens-Clarke County police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation continued searching for clues Sunday in the slaying of Jennifer Lynn Stone, a 22-year-old University of Georgia student from Roswell who was strangled and sexually assaulted at her off-campus home Thursday. More than 40 investigators scoured the house — a block from…
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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…
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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…
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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…