Murder at Ole Miss: The Jean Gillies Story

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 Hodgkin’s sentencing, the Gillies family began a decades-long struggle to ensure he remained in prison even as life in Oxford and the university returned to its usual rhythms.

While the Gillies family attended parole hearings for decades ...