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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Carol's Last Christmas on Radio Misfits
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...
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20 episodesCarol’s Last Christmas – Ep19: A Formidable Enemy
The veteran journalists and investigators on our team have always endeavored to work responsibly with law enforcement. In this case, we have...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep18: Suspect #2
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep17: Last Man Standing
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep16: BREAKING NEWS: Gone, but not forgotten
15 months after admitting he was on the crime scene the night Carol was attacked, and after calling Genuine Human’s lead investigator...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep15: I Had Trouble With A Guy In Class
Just how often were women being attacked in the 1970’s at or near Illinois State University? The Genuine Human team explores crimes th...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep14: Let’s Get Back in the Game
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep13: She was my buddy
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep12: I thought somebody told you
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep11: I’ll take a Polygraph Tomorrow
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep10: Where Do We Go From Here?
Front page coverage of Carol’s Last Christmas in the Suburban Chicago Daily Herald and Bloomington/Normal Pantagraph has led to some e...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep9: EPILOGUE
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep8: That Would Be Harassment
In this episode, the Genuine Human Team reviews their scorecards. What are the strongest leads, dead ends? What could be making law enforcem...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep7: The Rear View Mirror
More than 18 months into our investigation, a new name surfaced. Somebody who knew our prime suspect perhaps better than anyone at ISU. What...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep6: Did Somebody Say DNA?
In 1975, there were fingerprints. That’s about it. No one anticipated the sophisticated forensic techniques unlocked by DNA analysis. There...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep5: A Convenient Confession
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)...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep4: Where’s the Weapon?
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep3: Chasing Ghosts
For decades, the lodestar in the Rofstad investigation was a remarkably detailed sketch of 2 suspects “seen” by an eyewitness in the dead of...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep2: Cold Case Heat
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...
Carol’s Last Christmas – Ep1: Mr. Green Jeans
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...