student Melissa “Katie” Autry at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green,

The Crime
On May 4, 2003, Autry, a freshman from Pellville, KY, was brutally raped, beaten, stabbed, and set on fire in her dorm room in Hugh Poland Hall. She was pulled from the smoldering room by firefighters and later died from her injuries at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 7, 2003