HUNTED: The Stanford Murders

THE STORY

It began in 1973. Someone targeted this country’s best and brightest young women for violent sexual assault and murder on Stanford’s idyllic campus.  In just 16 months, three co-eds were brutally tortured to death. The killer or killers attacked and brutalized the final victim in the university chapel forever terrorizing the entire Palo Alto community. For 45 years, no suspect was ever arrested. No one was ever charged.

While the case went cold, a young Santa Clara County jail “matron” rose to the ranks of law enforcement and in 2001 became California’s first elected female Sheriff with jurisdiction over Stanford University.  Sheriff Laurie Smith vowed to solve “The Stanford Murders.” The unrelenting work of tireless detectives led authorities to two former Stanford employees.