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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: FAQ: Body in the Carpet

Reposting the FAQ to a.f.college is already producing dividends... We now have a confirmation and actual source for the "body in the carpet" story.

In article <1993Mar4.134922.1@gsbacd.uchicago.edu> cc_9d@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes: >> In article <1993Mar2.023035.26650@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>Tb.Students find rolled-up carpet; take and unroll in dorm room to find body.
>
>I was a freshman in Carman in 1985 and was told that this happened on my
>floor (8th floor) in the prior year. Anyhow, I suppose you all want some
>hard facts.....
>
>I just went back and checked the New York Times for 1984 and found that this
>did happen. On January 30, 1984 the Times reported (Section II, p2, col3)
>'THREE STUDENTS DISCOVER CORPSE IN A CARPET FOUND ON STREET'
>Three Columbia University students who picked up a discarded, rolled-up
>carpet from a West Side sidewalk yesterday discovered a corpse inside
>when they took it home, the police said.
>"They thought they were going to decorate their little dorm room," said
>police Lieutenant James McKenna. "Then they unrolled it and found a body."
>The unidentified body was described as a black male in his 20's with
>two bullet wounds to the head. Authorities said the students found the
>carpet in the Morningside Heights section, near the Columbia Campus.
>###
>
>Michael Reel (Columbia '89),
>Graduate School of Business
>University of Chicago
>CC_9D@GSBVAX.UCHICAGO.EDU

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