In the early morning hours of May 4, 2003, Western Kentucky University freshman Melissa “Katie” Autry was brutally raped, beaten, then lit on fire in her dorm room after returning home from a fraternity party, per the WKU Herald. Three days later, she died from complications due to her injuries.

Authorities later arrested Lucas Goodrum (then 21) and Stephen Soules (20) of Bowling Green, Ky. Soules plead guilty and is serving a life sentence without parole. Despite Soules’s testimony that Goodrum was the “main perpetrator,” he was acquitted.

Source: https://www.distractify.com/p/death-in-the-dorms-killers-now