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1968 murder at UW-Madison still stings

Four decades is a long time to be looking for someone who does not want to be found. It means that only one of you can be successful, either at hiding or finding. In the murder of Christine Rothschild, there is the added skill of remembering.

And to her friends and the few who remember her â?? the retired detectives, the aging professor, the surviving sister â?? Rothschild’s murder might have been yesterday.