Why you ll love it: This true crime audiobook follows the murder of 23-year-old Harvard student Jane Britton, who was bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. The rumor was Jane had an affair with her professor, who was found to be her murderer all because she threatened to talk about what was going on between them. But those whisperings were false. Cooper s 10-year analysis of Britton s story prove to be complex in this setting of privileged male elites and the narratives of female victims.
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When Becky Cooper was a junior at Harvard, her friend s boyfriend told her a story about the murder of a graduate student in the university s archaeology department. This was in the 1960s, he said. The victim had been having an affair with one of her professors a romance that began while they were on a dig together in Iran. When he tried to end the relationship, she wouldn t let it go. So he murdered her, then hid her body under his coat and carried her to his office. There, he adorned her naked body in the necklaces they d unearthed on the dig. He covered her in red ocher a powdered pigment found in ancient burial sites. Harvard covered it up, and the killer went free.
Becky Cooper: Harvard Detective
Becky Cooper 10 published her new non-fiction book, âWe Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and Half a Century of Silence on Nov. 10. The book dives into a story Cooper stumbled upon as an undergrad, which started out as little more than a rumor. The whispers told of a young Anthropology graduate student named Jane Britton.
Rebecca âBeckyâ A. Cooper â10 actually remembers her freshman convocation speaker. Her voice deepens and her vowels lengthen as she mimics the âvery illustrious Harvard accentâ of Jeremy R. Knowles, a former dean.
âYour job for the next four years is to learn how to sort out the rot,â she remembers Knowles telling her freshman class.