Events of October: Murder-Suicide on a Small Campus

by Gail Griffin and Dina Nayeri

Book Overview

On a Sunday night during Homecoming weekend in 1999, Neenef Odah lured his ex-girlfriend, Maggie Wardle, to his dorm room at Kalamazoo College and killed her at close range with a shotgun before killing himself. In the wake of this tragedy, the community of the small, idyllic liberal arts college struggled to characterize the incident, which was even called "the events of October" in a campus memo. In this engaging and intimate examination of Maggie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334725
• ISBN13: 9780814334720
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.9"