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Lisa Levy

Case from Tallahassee, FL dated Jan 15, 1978

Victim Details

Lisa Levy

Female

White / Caucasian

Tallahassee

FL

1978-01-15

20

Lisa

Levy

07/21/2026

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In the early morning hours of January 15, 1978, a sense of security within the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee was shattered. Lisa Levy, a 20-year-old female student, was asleep in her room when an intruder entered the house through a faulty back door. The man, armed with a piece of oak firewood, moved silently through the darkened halls. He entered Lisa's room and brutally bludgeoned and strangled her as she slept.

The attacker did not stop with Lisa. ...
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