The Fan
The Shockoe Examiner examines a murder at R.P.I.
This case has all the markings of movie. Possibly forbidden love and cold blooded murder.
A murder at the site of the current Rhodes Hall back in 1956.
The Shockoe Examiner has the full story:
As Vischio climbed the old stairs to the dorm room he once shared with his friend Whitlow, he must have felt the unaccustomed weight of a recently purchased Smith & Wesson 5-shot revolver in his jacket pocket. What transpired once Vischio reached that second-story dorm room? Was Whitlow (dressed in shorts and a t-shirt) asleep in bed? Or did the two men talk and at the end Whitlow simply turned his head away on his pillow? All we know is that Vischio bent down and deliberately emptied all five shots in the revolver, one after another, into the back of Whitlow’s head, killing him instantly.
