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This day in crime
04.05.1986
Lehigh freshman is raped and murdered, leading to new campus crime law
04.05.1986
Jeanne Clery, a 19-year-old freshman at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University, was brutally raped and murdered by a classmate in her dorm room. When her parents learned that on-campus violence was rampant, they lobbied Congress to pass the Clery Act requiring colleges to report crime statistics. (The killer’s death sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment without parole.)
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