
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep20: It’s Not Over
2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Carol Rofstad. It’s a date we hoped would be commemorated with true closure, perhaps l...
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Just 48 hours before Christmas, 1975, 21 year old Carol Rofstad was bludgeoned and left for dead on the lawn of the Delta Zeta sorority house at Illinois State University. She never opened h...

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Carol Rofstad. It’s a date we hoped would be commemorated with true closure, perhaps l...

The veteran journalists and investigators on our team have always endeavored to work responsibly with law enforcement. In this case, we have...

When a cold case is “on ice” for a half century, you can expect long lulls in the investigation. But our Genuine Human team is c...

Our list of known living suspects has now dwindled to one. In this episode we focus on the Last Man Standing, who at one point offered to te...

15 months after admitting he was on the crime scene the night Carol was attacked, and after calling Genuine Human’s lead investigator...

Just how often were women being attacked in the 1970’s at or near Illinois State University? The Genuine Human team explores crimes th...

After a 15 month production hiatus (requested by law enforcement,) the Genuine Human team is back on the case. And you won’t believe w...

An ISU alum plugged in to campus politics has remarkable recall of 1975 and the events before and after Carol’s murder. He’s kept a detailed...

The Genuine Human Team uncovers a series of attacks on women in and around. Fell Street in the mid to late 70’s. Some of the cases bear a st...

In this episode we hear directly from the ISU professor who used the murder weapon as a teaching tool. Did he know that the case was still o...

Front page coverage of Carol’s Last Christmas in the Suburban Chicago Daily Herald and Bloomington/Normal Pantagraph has led to some e...

Carol Rofstad’s memory is vivid among those who knew and loved her. But does the current ISU community care? Has law enforcement given up? I...

In this episode, the Genuine Human Team reviews their scorecards. What are the strongest leads, dead ends? What could be making law enforcem...

More than 18 months into our investigation, a new name surfaced. Somebody who knew our prime suspect perhaps better than anyone at ISU. What...

In 1975, there were fingerprints. That’s about it. No one anticipated the sophisticated forensic techniques unlocked by DNA analysis. There...

In 1977, there was a blockbuster break in the case…or so it seemed. First a confession, then an arrest (without a grand jury or indictment)...

Was it a railroad tie? A log? A 2X4? And what happened to the object used to bludgeon Carol on that cold December night? In Episode 4, Where...

For decades, the lodestar in the Rofstad investigation was a remarkably detailed sketch of 2 suspects “seen” by an eyewitness in the dead of...

There may be no one (outside of Carol’s family) more dedicated to a solution than George Seibel. The retired Chicago cop has solved hundreds...

What are the odds that the same young college student could be attacked twice on the same campus, at essentially the same location? In this...