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Podcast: Haunted American History
Episode: The Ypsilanti Ripper
Description: In the late 1960s, a serial killer hunted college towns in Michigan, targeting young women who trusted the people around them.
For two years, fear spread across Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti as bodies were discovered and the violence escalated. Police searched for someone unstable, someone obvious… someone who looked like a threat.
They were looking in the wrong direction.
Because the man responsible wasn’t hiding in the shadows.
He was a college student.
A fraternity member.
A future teacher.
And when the case finally broke… it came f...