Wisconsin’s Capital City Killings
Eight women connected to the University of Wisconsin-Madison were slain and no one was ever brought to justice.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is renowned for being one of the best research universities in the US, as well as among the friendliest campus colleges there is.
However, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, it had also become infamous for a string of brutal murders that have gone unsolved to this day. The deaths of eight young women with connections or proximity to the institution are largely forgotten now, but their stories are just as shocking as those of the victims of Ted Bundy or The Zodiac.
Christine Rothschild
The so-called Capital City Killings (sometimes referred to as the Campus Killings) started in May 1968, when the body of a freshman named Christine Rothschild was discovered in the bushes outside Sterling Hall.
She had been stabbed 14 times in the neck and chest and some of her ribs and her jaw were broken. Christine had been strangled and a pair of her own gloves were pushed into her throat. She had not been sexually assaulted, but a man’s handkerchief was laid under her head in a staged fashion.
