Murder at Ole Miss

In May 1986, twenty-four-year-old graduate student Jean Gillies was brutally murdered in her Oxford, Mississippi, apartment by a man she had been casually dating. That man, Douglas Hodgkin, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for her murder. After sentencing, the Gillies family faced a loss that never let go, even as life in Oxford and the university resumed its usual rhythms. However, after twenty-two years behind bars and many, increasingly frequent parole hearings, Hodgkin was ...