We Keep the Dead Close - Becky Cooper
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Narrator: Becky Cooper
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, True Crime, Adults
You have to remember, he reminded me, that Harvard is older than the U.S. government. You have to remember because Harvard doesnt let you forget., 1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvards Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment., Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because shed threatened to talk about the affair. Thoug
