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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: FAQ: Body in the Carpet
-
- Reposting the FAQ to a.f.college is already producing dividends... We now
- have a confirmation and actual source for the "body in the carpet" story.
-
- In article <1993Mar4.134922.1@gsbacd.uchicago.edu> cc_9d@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
- >> In article <1993Mar2.023035.26650@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>>Tb.Students find rolled-up carpet; take and unroll in dorm room to find body.
- >
- >I was a freshman in Carman in 1985 and was told that this happened on my
- >floor (8th floor) in the prior year. Anyhow, I suppose you all want some
- >hard facts.....
- >
- >I just went back and checked the New York Times for 1984 and found that this
- >did happen. On January 30, 1984 the Times reported (Section II, p2, col3)
- >'THREE STUDENTS DISCOVER CORPSE IN A CARPET FOUND ON STREET'
- >Three Columbia University students who picked up a discarded, rolled-up
- >carpet from a West Side sidewalk yesterday discovered a corpse inside
- >when they took it home, the police said.
- >"They thought they were going to decorate their little dorm room," said
- >police Lieutenant James McKenna. "Then they unrolled it and found a body."
- >The unidentified body was described as a black male in his 20's with
- >two bullet wounds to the head. Authorities said the students found the
- >carpet in the Morningside Heights section, near the Columbia Campus.
- >###
- >
- >Michael Reel (Columbia '89),
- >Graduate School of Business
- >University of Chicago
- >CC_9D@GSBVAX.UCHICAGO.EDU
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