Īardsma enrolled at Penn State in early October 1969. Upon graduation from the University of Michigan, Aardsma initially intended to join the Peace Corps and travel to Africa, although she opted to enroll at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) when she discovered that Wright, her boyfriend, intended to study there and that he could not guarantee he would remain loyal to her if she traveled abroad for any significant length of time. She graduated from this institution with honors in the summer of 1969. By her senior year, she had begun dating a medical student named David Wright, who by all accounts was her first serious boyfriend. In the fall of 1967, Aardsma enrolled at the University of Michigan, studying art and English and sharing an apartment with three other female students.
Her roommate, Linda DenBesten, later recollected Aardsma as an intelligent and fascinating individual who exhibited feminist traits. Shortly after graduating from high school, Aardsma enrolled in Hope College in the fall of 1965, with aspirations to become a physician. Aardsma attended Holland High School and performed well academically, graduating with honors in 1965. By adolescence, she had developed somewhat liberal ideals and displayed a concern for the underprivileged.
Īs a child, Aardsma displayed a flair for art and poetry. Aardsma's father was a sales tax auditor for the Michigan State Treasurer, while her mother was a housewife. She was born in Holland, Michigan, to Esther and Richard Aardsma, and raised in a middle-class, religious and conservative household on West 37th Street. Haefner was never charged with her murder, and died in 2002.Įlizabeth Ruth "Betsy" Aardsma was the second of four children. The evidence indicating Haefner's guilt of Aardsma's murder is circumstantial. Though Aardsma's murder remains officially unsolved, local investigative journalists and two independent authors have published testimony and reports which strongly indicate Penn State geology professor Richard Haefner may have been responsible for her death, which has been described by one author as Pennsylvania's most infamous unsolved murder. The murder of Betsy Aardsma is an American murder case dating from November 1969, in which a 22-year-old graduate student was murdered by a single stab wound inside the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in University Park, Pennsylvania.
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