Betty Gail Brown was a sophomore at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky when she was murdered on campus in 1961.Betty Gail’s murder has haunted Central Kentucky for six decades.  Who killed Betty Gail and why? The case remains unsolved despite the police file noting the case was closed due to an arrest.

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Episode Sources

• Recommended Read: Who Killed Betty Gail Brown?: Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery by Robert G. Lawson. 
• Daily News August 1966: The Coed Parked with Death
• Find A Grave: Betty Gail Brown (1942-1961)
• Indianapolis Star October 1961: Co-Ed Slain on Kentucky Campus
• Lexington Herald-Leader January 1965: Man held in West says he killed Miss Brown
• Lexington Herald-Leader December 1984: Police still seeking answers to unsolved murder
• Lexington Herald-Leader November 2017: Inside the Police File of City’s Most Notorious Slaying that has gone unsolved for 56 years
• The Rambler: Kentucky Cold Case: Who killed Betty Gail Brown?
• The Rambler: Cold Case Heats Up: Police Department Reopens Transy Student’s Murder Case
• Vice: The Bizarre Unsolved Murder of Harry Dean Stanton's Niece

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Surrender by Dan Lebowitz. Licensed under Creative Commons