123. Murder on Campus: The Unsolved Death of Ginger Olson with Brian and Cameron Santana

On a Sunday morning in April 1973, a 19-year-old drama major at the University of North Carolina, Asheville got dressed and left her dorm to walk the trails to the Biltmore botanical gardens to study in quiet and beauty as she liked to do on most weekends. Hours later, two teenagers stumbled onto the scene of her brutal murder. Was it an escaped psychiatric patient? Did a student kill her? Was it a local cult leader? What was a powerful family trying to hide and why did it seem like local authorities were helping them? Brian Santana, a professor who teaches a true crime course, and his brother Cameron, a retired police officer, join to discuss their search for answers in this 50-year-old mystery. To buy the book "A Murder on Campus: The Professor, The Cop, And North Carolina’s Most Notorious Cold Case ": https://wildbluepress.com/murder-on-campus-true-crime-santana/ Fill out our Listener Survey at: https://bit.ly/slhwinter25survey Check out the Silver Linings Handbook website at: https://silverliningshandbook.com/ Check out our Patreon to support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/thesilverliningshandbook Join our Facebook Group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1361159947820623 Visit the Silver Linings Handbook store to support the podcast at: https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-silver-linings-handbook-podcast-store Visit The True Crime Times Substack at: https://truecrimemessenger.substack.com Contact me at silverliningshandbookpod@gmail.com The Silver Linings Handbook podcast is a part of the ART19 network. ART19 is a subsidiary of Wondery and Amazon Music. See the Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and the California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.