Murder of Jane Britton

When

7 Jan 1969

Kind

Murder

Coordinates

42.37° N, 71.12° W

Description

killing of Harvard graduate student solved a half-century later through DNA

1969 killing at Harvard solved via DNA in 2018

On January 7, 1969, at 12:30 a.m, 23‑year‑old Jane Britton, a graduate student in Near Eastern archaeology at Harvard University, left a neighbor's apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, to return to her own. The next day, after she had failed to answer her phone and missed an important exam, her boyfriend went to the apartment and found her dead.

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