"But when she picked up, she did not hear the voice she feared. He had a deep solemnity about him that belied his penchant for good times. He says, 'We were at the library that night. Im so excited for this post because I have not yet researched a female serial killer. Musala's editor, who would later become mayor of State College, resisted the use of the language because he "was aware that this was sensitive because it was the Nittany Lions," she recalls. I felt that prison was not going to be the answer for him and was only going to make him harder. Ive been moved down to this place we called the barracks, in the basement of the gym. He had worked out in prison, and if anything, he was bigger and stronger than when he left. They were a bunch of kids, 14 years old, but also strangers to one another. Now, ESPNs in-depth expose, written by Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne, tells the lesser-known story of Penn State linebacker Todd Hodne, who was accused of raping several women - and eventually killing another - in the late 1970s and 1980s. But she didn't know everybody else was in danger until she looked behind the passenger seat of his car. He was very nearly silent about Todd Hodne. She said she was willing to take the hits because she was trying to buy time. She was too afraid. Ferrell has no memory of her. So I dropped. And it was there she saw the other women; it was there she realized the differences between them. he becomes what everyone in this story needs, and what only Betsy Sailor actually gets, embracing him now in the kitchen"my guardian angel.". Hodne had endured the meat grinder anonymity of freshman football and then had been suspended. I don't think I revealed much of anything." Hodne was still one of them, a teammate. Hodne could hit. Paterno asked to be recontacted on Sunday 10/15/78 at 1830 hours for further information.". "The interfraternity council decided that they wanted to [impose sanctions] because there was some press that was going on," says Greg Hanks, the president of Fiji House at the time. ESPNs writers unearthed a report about another 1978 victim known only as Karen in the article. And I could not believe that word came out of my mother's mouth because she's such a sweet lady. One of the few photos that the Daily Collegian ran of spring practice in 1978 shows Joe Paterno giving Hodne the benefit of his personal tutelage, above the caption, "Do it like this." It was just to be kept quiet. Fred Ragucci knew that Hodne was being investigated for other crimes because he had been asked about them. They both had heard that were "others," but they were never told who they were or how many there might have been. He was given the name The Green River Killer because after killing his victims he would later dump their bodies in the now infamous Green River located south of Interstate 90. she asks now. I hope this gives you some peace and closure after all you have gone through. "I have a picture of when she first got to Florida, and I've never seen her smile a smile like that," Kathleen says. Hirsch, a father of four, died five days later after he was taken off life support. She asked not to be quoted on the subject of her father. The girl, still bound, followed him outside. One night early in freshman year, Hodne and his roommate headed for a party at Fiji House, only to be told at the door that freshmen weren't invited. "I didn't know where I was, and couple of guys on the team would be like, 'We'll get you home,'" she says. She climbed up on the toilet seat and squeezed her naked body through it, cutting and bruising herself from shoulders to knees. These are good people doing their jobs to the best of their abilities. With the national championship on the line midway through the fourth quarter, Paterno called a conservative run play on fourth-and-goal from inside the 1-yard line. But even with Hodne in Pennsylvania, Poggioli remained under his influence. But they also were wild for a reasonwild because one of them was Todd Hodne's girlfriend, and they were trying to set her free. "It was front-loaded with football players." What would I have done? Georgette fled to the bathroom, where there was a tiny porthole window. This was someone familiar but not someone she knew. Also in those files is a report in which Musser questioned Hodne, and later his parents, on the day he was arrested in State College. Susan, who sounds brash and fearless telling the story now, wanted to move on: "Suck it up, put your big girl panties on and just deal with it." It just wasn't who he was. And she was country. But she wants her story told, so she has given her husband the task of telling it. He was checking in with his parole officer each week and seeing a therapist about his drug use and sexual compulsions. But Irv had seen that Betsy was alone in State College, and in that he saw part of himself: "When I started playing for Penn State, there were 12 African-Americans on the team. I think he did. But she also believed back then in Joe Paterno, and she expected something of him: "The decency and humanity to acknowledge the pain that the women [Hodne] hurt suffer. But then there's that magic that happened. So if you know that men are more likely to commit a crime in a certain way and women are more likely to do it another, hopefully it can help investigators go down the correct path.. Just as they fought for their lives then, they fight for their lives now. He did not stop Hodne. Simmers said that state police brought in an expert to use an ultraviolet black light to detect bodily fluids in the area Betsy had been found. Hodne wasn't even Catholic. The calls pissed her off. I also contacted [Susan] (678-10416) and informed her of Hodne's release.". The hard work of living with what has happened encourages the sharing of individual stories and ends up underscoring the fact that not all stories are alike, as Barbara Johnson, now 63-year-old Barbara Kuffner, understood even at age 20. Kathleen didn't understand. She had been raised "with Pendleton skirts and sweaters and that sort of stuff," and she had been able to speak matter-of-factly about her rape since it happened. She was 11 years old and had missed the bus, so the mother of a friend drove her. After Hodne was caught a month later, Barbara went to the jailhouse to pick him out of a lineup and then to court to testify against him. "If we're covering this because he's a football player, why aren't we reminding people that he's a football player?" "I received your letter and must say I feel bad about my lack of recollection. He pulled a girl at the dance under the table while his teammates stayed in their chairsan act that made his reputation in some quarters, and in some quarters undid hers. And that he took that risk," Betsy says. He did not remember going to Hamilton Hall and questioning Fred Ragucci about the five women Todd Hodne was suspected of assaulting. Stories like Ridgways are real life examples of how these murderous beings, known as serial killers, can live among us with no notable signs. He had been an All-America end for Paterno when Paterno was an assistant and had gone on to play for the San Diego Chargers in the AFL. He ordered her to pull her sweatshirt over her head and pushed her into the shadows of the John F. Kennedy Middle School, dragging her into the woods where she had gone sleigh riding as a kid. "Daddy, did they take my stereo?" In 1979, he was indicted in Nassau County, New York, on four counts of first-degree rape, three counts of first-degree sodomy, and other charges, including robbery and attempted rape. He had not addressed his team about Hodne in the usual prescriptive way. He goes, 'Well, you got to tell the truth the best you can.' '", Irv Pankey was a junior and a natural protectora tight end who had been moved to left tackle. He then moved to her crotch and began licking. Musser then names five women, including Elizabeth Sailor. Investigators also found his fingerprints at Betsy Sailor's apartmenton a tube of Clinique eye cream in the medicine cabinet; on the prized Norwegian knife he left behind; and on the lightbulb he loosened ever so slightly in its socket. He tackled her on the brick sidewalk between the main house and the guest house where she liveda 240-pound former Penn State football player expending his full force on a 79-year-old woman. But Grine remembers them not wanting to cooperate. Burning it felt like voodoo. Karen felt that Paterno was calling out of concern for the Penn State football program not her. He was retired at 74 years old but still very much a small-town cop. We've received your submission. He had chosen to attack the Pirkls on the day of his 20th birthday. When I stood toe-to-toe with Bear Bryant, he outcoached me. Off the field too, he was just another guy who liked to drink, smoke weed, go to parties and bring women back to the room. She noticed him in part because of his sweaterit was long, with a belt and an extravagant Mexican pattern, more stylish than the kinds of getups Long Island boys usually wore. In 2007, he had confessed to six other killings and hes a suspected in at least 10 other homicides in Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, according to The Times. The best insights from the ultimate insiders, 2022 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He told her that he only needed money, and though he had to tie her up, he would be gone quickly and she would never see him again. he got in trouble and then he was no longer on the team." Then she was told it wouldn't count. It was magical. The killer across the table : unlocking the secrets of serial killers and predators with the FBI's original Mindhunter / John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. On Oct. 13, 1978, an officer at headquarters wrote the following: "On this date at 1335 hours, this officer returned [FBI] Agent [Larry] Harper's phone call to Washington D.C. "In the summer preceding the 1979 season, the team was shocked by the kind of incident that's not supposed to happen in Penn State athletics," he wrote. Of the six women Hodne attacked on Long Island, she was the only one who didn't participate in his prosecution; she was too traumatized. Would I have fought? Pete goofed off. It comes up in parenting." As Paterno put it in the 1980 Sports Illustrated profile, published one year and 14 days after Hodne was convicted in Centre County Court for the rape of Betsy Sailor, "We have never covered up things around here. And yet she was still telling herself that he was there to rob her. WebTodd Steven Hodne (April 23, 1959 April 29, 2020) was an American football linebacker and convicted felon from Wantagh, Long Island, New York.. Hodne gained notoriety for a series of sexual assaults he committed while attending Penn State University, as well as in his hometown afterward; he committed at least twelve rapes and sexual assault attacks But he believes it was someone who was close to her. He came to their room and tried to convince all of them that he couldn't possibly be guilty. They saw Hodne's Wantagh friend dangling from the broken window and called the police. He was running. Andrea Cavallier is a Digital Producer for Dateline NBC. But she touched his wrist, and had the chance to say goodbye. He would say hello to me on campus if he would see me Im trying so hard to remember. Catalog. On Sept. 13, 1978, 21-year-old Betsy Sailor who had placed a classified ad in the school newspaper in search of a female roommate met with Hodne when he responded on behalf of his "girlfriend," a ruse he devised to meet Sailor. "I'm with a roommate I didn't pick, and he's having this kind of problemwhy am I involved? She kept saying to her attacker, "Let's talk about this," and he said, "Shut up." The atrocities committed by former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky are well-documented, but until now the crimes of a former defensive player in the program have gone almost entirely uncovered. Kip Vernaglia, one of the players who hung out with him, remembers Hodne as a "happy-go-lucky knucklehead kind of guy." It wasn't just that when he went to the Record Ranch, he couldn't leave without a few LPs under his coat. "Obviously, this person destroyed a lot of lives," her brother Jeff says of Hodne. I have no idea what you are talking about. The man handled everything.". When I got the call that day it was for a medical emergency, Simmers told Dateline. ", Kathleen does not have the book anymore. Todd Hodne, in the greedy predation of his phone calls to Susan, had revealed himself. Hodne said that on Sept. 1, he was in Philadelphia with Frank Brickowski, watching Penn State play Temple in its opening game of the season. These he suspended unilaterally. Gary Ridgway from 1982 to 1984, managed to kill over seventy teenage girls in the city of Tacoma, Washington making him one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. There is no record of a second call to Paterno on that Sunday. KATHLEEN PIRKL, on the moment her mother told her about Todd Hodne's attack. At the end of Oct. 13, the lead investigator on the case, Duane Musser, wrote a report summarizing the efforts that he and his partner, Garry Kunes, had made to find Hodne: "At 1920 hours Off. So did Tony Capozzoli, who had also been asked about them. "Football was who I was. Hodne served three years for Sailors rape and four years for his Long Island attacks, a total of seven years of a 21-year sentence. So one of them, John Poggioli, started messing with the kid playing linebacker, the kid with the long face and the long hair combed to the side and the serious real estate at the jawline. It was horrific to hear out of her mouth. She was 21 years old, a senior at what she proudly called "my state university" and one of the few women majoring in business administration. He used to drive by in his yellow car and wave to her. Six months after we called her for the first time, Karen had another memory about State College. After a week, he returned to his parents' home in Wantagh and began smoking crack again. '", The only surviving member of Penn State's public information department at the time is Dave Baker, who was assistant sports information director in 1978. Todd Hodne, Dave Smith and John Poggioli had one more season together, and though Hodne and Smith once had a fistfight on the school stairs, Hodne and Poggioli were thought to be best friends. Duane Musser wrote at the time: "At approx. WebEvery community has its grisly tales of murder including the Coal State. He had followed them down on their I-95 frolic, a convicted rapist driving 2,000 miles on the open road. Ultimately, one of the spokespeople released the following statement: "First, Todd Hodne committed horrific crimes, and we have the greatest sympathies for each of those he victimized. At Hamilton Hall, they lived between the two "jock house" fraternities, Phi Delta Theta and Phi Gamma Delta, otherwise known as "Fiji House." They looked at each other. The book included court files and her mother's notes but also something that shocked her: "A letter from Hodne's mother apologizing, saying she didn't know where she went wrong with her son. If you could arrange it, I think I do. "I watched her diminish because of what Todd did to her," Kathleen says. She heard Hodne cut off her daughter's pants, girdle and underwear with scissors. And in her recounting of the crime, she described the blue suede Puma sneakers her blindfolded eyes had struggled to see as she was pinned to the bedthe sneakers Hodne was wearing in court. They knock on the door, somebody may knock on the door, a cute girl knocks on the door, what do you do? And his son Scott answered an email by explaining, "I was six. She was 22 years old, without a job and estranged from part of her family. Her grandmother was wearing a robe not her own. The next thing you know, Sailor said, I had a hand around my mouth and a knife at my neck, and a voice said, Ill kill you if you say a word.'. In articles in the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Daily News and particularly Sports Illustrated, he did a kind of public penance, admitting in SI that "the Great Experiment"as he called his own program"is suddenly in disrepute" and wondering aloud if the violence he encouraged on the field had followed his players off of it: "We're dealing with aggressive kids; we encourage this aggressiveness and then we get mad when we can't saddle them. "And it would come out at the most horrible times. She opened the door and began screaming. Law enforcement, however, did not see a correlation between her stabbing and the Bundy murders, Simmers told Dateline. "Finally, he tied me up and left.". "Whenever a player got in trouble, he didn't want anybody to know about it," Upcraft says. She grabbed her can of Mace, but her assailant said, "I have a knife." The young man at the door said that he worked for the Police Boys Club and was soliciting local men to be volunteer coaches. I asked for a number.. When he confronted me, he threw one of my shirts, one of my favorite shirts, over my head, put me in a bathtub, and shaved my pubic area, said Susan, claiming her attacker also held a knife to her throat. "You only partly did the right thing," she says, addressing Paterno 43 years later. Capozzoli went on to testify against Hodne and claimed he was kicked off the team for it. It's a reminder that, in the matter of athletic departments and sexual violence, change came because the worst that could possibly happen so often did. Hodne had lost everything but his powers of persuasion. But then by temperament, Paterno was always involved. And when he left, they all hugged Ellen and wept. "I've asked myself a million times, if I had known he'd had a pair of scissors, what would I have done? In those days, if you played football for Penn State, the last thing you needed was a date. ", On Oct. 21, 1978, a little more than two months after Karen had been attacked, the Nittany Lions beat Syracuse 45-15 for their seventh straight win of the season. Having a daughter changed my father in more ways than I can express, but that doesn't change what he did before my birth. As someone who has dealt with drug addiction, I felt that maybe he should get another chance, you know? She wanted me home, and she started crying. Ragucci could figure out easily enough why he wound up in this unlikely pairing: "I was a pretty good student. Pankey was part of the crowd that went to the Train Station on Tuesday nights. It was her parents' wedding anniversary, he says. Wherever she was, he would show up. All the time, even when you were having a conversation.. In Wantagh, he showed up at his home with bruises on his face and his mother called the parole office to tell them that her son had been mugged in the parking lot of the local 7-Eleven by a gang of teenagers who told him he should go back to jail. But in Adrienne's recollection, "When I went back to the class, the coach came over and he looked at me and he said, 'You don't have to come here one more time. Hodne was convicted on three very serious charges, and the cops thought these convictions would be enough. According to ESPN's "Untold" feature story, Hodne attacked at least 12 women. Adrienne Reissman believes that Hodne was the man who attacked her in the parking lot outside the Train Station in downtown State College: "He did a f---ing number on me, and I'm a brave soul." . When Hirsch stopped on the dark street, Hodne threatened him with a knife. Oh, please Godno.' She had told Hodne the truth when she told him her father was a cop. A Pennsylvania serial killer in jail since the 1970s has confessed to six more murders, authorities said. When a former co-host, Jake Everett, works his way back into the professional life of popular TV morning show host Naomi Spencer, the show's success skyrockets, but Naomi's personal life begins to fall apart. So it was the magic of the moment and just seeing him and being able to hug him. But they both had to survive Todd Hodne. And to understand what happened from here, I actually have to go back to the decisions I made when I was 12 or 13 or even younger. ", In the Hodne case, the justice system failed. Actor then put his clothes on and went out of the room. On Oct. 25, 1978, Todd Hodne was arraigned at a preliminary hearing for the rape of Betsy Sailor. . District attorneys dont plan to prosecute him for the cold cases because of his life sentences, the statement said. I was on my back at first. He was wearing a wool sweater with a Mexican design. He has shallow feelings and loyalties and appears to owe no allegiance to any particular person, group or code . But then she learned she might hear from Joe Paterno. And as Paterno saw it, his job was not to control the justice system but to control the narrative. Credit: iStock Photo / Mihajlo Maricic. But we tried to keep it out of the paper when we could, because once it got in the paper, then the woman's privacy was gone. The hospital had run out of rape kits, and the nurse who examined her was rude, she thought, "mocking." Simmers, who was the same age as Betsy was when she died, told Dateline there isnt a day that goes by that he doesnt think about Betsy or her case. If you tried to stop Todd, he would hurt you. One second, Poggioli is talking, teasing the kid. There are provisions under federal Title IX gender equity laws that require schools to investigate such reports and provide support, counseling and protection to students who have been the victim of sexual violence. "The police came over," she says. "It was even hard for us to make appointments or get time [with university officials]. Her mother was prim and proper and very Catholic, a volunteer at the St. Dominic library. I only wish I could recapture what I lost, Hodne told the judge. And, until this day, in the summer of 2021, they each had to do it alone. Penn State expelled Todd Hodne in December 1978. he'd asked Karen. And we had discussions where she felt like, 'I was with your father and only him, and then this happens.' Joe could just do anything he wanted, and nobody was going to question him., Paterno announced that Hodne could return to football if he has a good academic year and if he proves the robbery was a mistake.. ", Paterno's longtime offensive line coach Dick Anderson remembers Capozzoli's dismissal differently, saying: "I think he's making excuses for the fact that he was never good enough to play at this level." His crimes haunted him till the day he died. I let my anger turn against the staff and against the team, even though the decision was purely mine. Bundy began his killing career in the early 1970s in Washington, mainly preying on young college women. There is a requirement for campus law enforcement to issue timely warnings, which students receive on their cell phones when a suspected predator is on the loose. He failed to inform his parole officer that he had been questioned by the police. Isnt that a criminal act? "There were a bunch of big, burly guys in the courtroom," she remembers. He walked past her and went to Hodne's room. He was found not guilty of Possessing Offensive Weapons. He and I talked, and he said, 'If there's a football player involved, I want to know about it.' The rest follow, wondering if they should tell one of the coaches what they just saw. Harrison said she hopes that in addition to helping investigators solve crimes, the results recently published in the journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences can help create prevention and treatments programs for violent offenders. He threatened her with me. The reporter who wrote it admits now that she had never heard of him. An article in the Daily Collegian describes the attack like this: "State College Police are still investigating an incident in which a woman was forced to commit a deviate sexual act at knifepoint Aug. 19. It was the season in which Penn State football became Penn State Football, a season that saw head coach Joe Paterno become an American icon. "It was a long time ago . 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