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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: Brotherhood of Brutality Unchecked Fraternity Hazing
Description: By Robert Riggs
Burned with lit cigarettes. Impaled with a fishhook. Staples fired into his hip. Deadly drugs forced up his nose.
It sounds like a brutal regime’s methods from a torture chamber.
But these are the homegrown means of hazing that the Alpha Nu Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity allegedly used on pledges at the University of Texas at Austin.
The sadistic practices detailed in a wrongful death lawsuit raise questions about whether fraternity members derive pleasure from inflicting pain.
It allegedly caused 18-year-old Sawyer Updike to...