Rosalind Heather Thorpe was 23 and a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz when she was murdered on February 5, 1973. She and fellow student Alice Helen Liu were last seen that evening after being picked up by Edmund Kemper. Both women were reported missing after failing to return home from campus; their decapitated bodies were discovered six months later in Alameda, California.

Edmund Kemper, later called the Co-Ed Killer, targeted young female students in the Santa Cruz area in the early 1970s. Kemper was arrested on April 24, 1973, after calling police to confess and provided detailed accounts that led to his conviction and a life sentence without parole.

Does anyone have memories of Rosalind Thorpe on campus or information about her life at UC Santa Cruz that could add to the record?