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What a cool way to learn! At Bauder College in Georgia, several criminology students are re-examining the facts surrounding cold cases and hoping to solve those cases. Their first case is that of Chandra Levy, a 24-year-old Bureau of Prisons intern who disappeared in 2001. Her disappearance exposed a Congressman’s affair but did not lead to any arrests.

The university I attended (University of Central Missouri) has a fantastic criminology program. I didn’t specifically study criminology, though sometimes I wish I did. I took one sociology-criminology course during the summer between my junior and senior years that was absolutely fascinating. We looked at the psychology of serial killers and mass murderers. In some ways, that’s creepy, but it’s also fascinating - what makes a person choose to kill? Many of the cases we studied were cold cases, though we were not able to learn anything about the cases that had not already become public. It would be so cool, though, to try to solve those cases - criminal cases are the ultimate puzzle, and I’m a puzzle lover!