2A - Wednesday, October 29, 2008 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Serial killings shock campus About forty years ago, between 1967 and 1969, the University of Michiganand theAnnArborcom- munity at large were terrorizedby a series of brutal murders. Seven young women in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti area, including three enrolled at the University of Michigan, were sexually assaulted and either strangled, shot, or beaten to death. Their bodies were found mutilated. Because many of the victims were students at the Uni- versity or Eastern Michigan Uni- versity, the case became known as the "Co-Ed Murders." Judith Avery, a librarian at the Hatcher Graduate Library and resident of Ann Arbor at the time of the murders, said the killings made everyone in the city anx- ious. "College age women were dis- CRIME NOTES appearing and then showing up dead somewhere," she said. "We didn't know how or why they disappeared, and everyone was edgy." Police began a frantic search for the killer, which lasted two years and became more widely criticized as time passed with no arrests. The seventh and last mur- der, that of Karen Sue Beineman, a freshman at Eastern Michigan University, provided the police with enough evidence to lead to the arrest of John Norman Col- lins, a senior at Eastern Michigan University studying elementary education. On July 31, 1969, police arrest- ed Collins for the murder of Beineman. Collins' trial begun on June 2, 1970 in Washtenaw County Trial Court and stretched through that summer until the jury found him guilty on August 19,1970. He was sentenced to life in prison that year, a term he is still serving in Marquette Branch Prison. Although Collins was sus- pected of having killed all seven women, he was only everdefini- tively linked him to Beineman. An account of the deaths lead- ing up to Collins' arrest, "The Michigan Murders," was writ- ten in 1976 by Edward Keyes. The book was later adapted into the 1977 film "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep," which was partially filmed in Ann Arbor. Collins, who still claims his innocence, tried to escape from prison in 1979 by digging a two- foot-wide tunnel more than 19 feet underneath the prison. AMY MUNSLOW Police escort Joho Norman Collios after toe was arrested is July of 1969 for the murder of tastern Michigan University student Karen Sue Beineman. Though never convicted, Collins is also suspected in the murders of six other women between 1967 and 1969. 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