something was wrong. her daughter, away at college wasn t answering her phone. she was scared. she didn t know where alex was. then, terrible news. a student had been murdered. a young woman. but apparently, it wasn t alex. the girl laying on the floor had dark, almost black colored hair. she had much lighter hair. so who was it and where was alex? at that point, it was one dead and perhaps another missing. the killer could be roaming a campus full of students. we were really scared. a mysterious tweet. what do you think it meant? i don t exactly know. a terrifying phone call. my son just called. and a terrible truth. i didn t know how. i didn t know who. i didn t know anything. i just know she was gone. hello, and welcome to dateline. a college freshman found brutally beaten in her dorm room. a crime scene so bloody, police could not identify the victim, but identifying the killer was not nearly as hard. he admitted what he did, turning himsel
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she didn t answer the phone. she was scared. then terrible news. a student had been murdered. a young woman, but apparently it wasn t alum. the girl on the floor had very black colored hair. she had lighter hair. who was it and where was alex. at that point, it was perhaps one dead and another missing. the killer could be roaming the campus. we are really scared. a mysterious tweet. what do you think it meant? i don t know. a terrifying phone call. my son just called. and a terrible truth. i didn t know how? i didn t know who? i didn t know anything. i just know she was gone. hello and welcome to dateline. a college freshman found brutally beaten, so gruesome, they couldn t identify the victim, but identifying the killer wasn t nearly as hard. he admitted what he did, turning himself into police within hours. it was why he said he did it, it would become the foundation for his defense. here is andrea canning with after midnight. every yea
campus full of students. we were really scared. a mysterious tweet. what do you think it meant? i don t exactly know. reporter: a terrifying phone call: my son just called me and told me he killed somebody. reporter: and a terrible truth. i didn t know how. i didn t know who. i didn t know anything. i just know she was gone. reporter: i m lester holt and this is dateline. here s andrea canning with after midnight. 3 f2 medianoche. days at the beach come to an end, students flood back to college. it s the same scene year after year, at campus after campus. and every year, there s that new bunch, the freshmen. i was nervous for classes the first day because, you know, i m that scared little freshman. reporter: all those worries, all those questions. do i really have to go to these classes? and what s this teacher like? and all that kind of stuff. reporter: they re not quite adults, they re not quite teens. but now, suddenly, they re on their own. i m
campus full of students. we were really scared. a mysterious tweet. what do you think it meant? i don t exactly know. reporter: a terrifying phone call: my son just called me and told me he killed somebody. reporter: and a terrible truth. i didn t know how. i didn t know who. i didn t know anything. i just know she was gone. reporter: i m lester holt and this is dateline. here s andrea canning with after midnight. 3 f2 medianoche. days at the beach come to an end, students flood back to college. it s the same scene year after year, at campus after campus. and every year, there s that new bunch, the freshmen. i was nervous for classes the first day because, you know, i m that scared little freshman. reporter: all those worries, all those questions. do i really have to go to these classes? and what s this teacher like? and all that kind of stuff. reporter: they re not quite adults, they re not quite teens. but now, suddenly, they re on their own. i m