Alice Helen Allison Liu was 21 and a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz when she was murdered on February 5, 1973. She left her residence that evening to attend a class and do research at the campus library and was last seen hitchhiking to UCSC. Her roommate reported her missing when she failed to return that night.

Searchers found Alice’s body near the UCSC campus; authorities determined she had been murdered. The investigation led to the arrest of Edmund Kemper, who reportedly confessed to picking up Alice while she was hitchhiking and to killing her. He was charged with multiple counts of murder including Alice’s.

Does anyone who studied or lived at UCSC in early 1973 remember the circumstances around her disappearance or the campus atmosphere at the time?