Ioan Petru Culianu

Ioan Petru Culianu, a 41-year-old Romanian male, was a distinguished historian of religion and a professor at the University of Chicago. On May 21, 1991, he was tragically murdered in a bathroom stall near his office in Swift Hall at the University of Chicago. Culianu was shot in the back of the head with a .25-caliber Beretta, a weapon small enough to fit into a handbag. The Cook County medical examiner determined that the shot was fired from a distance of at least 18 inches, suggesting a level ...

The Cold Case of a University of Chicago Professor's Murder

True crime at the div school - The Christian Century