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Chronicle 100: "Death by Hazing" (Part 2)

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This episode is rated a 5 (on my Serious Crime Scale).

In the spring of 2017, Timothy Piazza was like many college sophomores — eager to find his place, to build lasting friendships, and to be part of something bigger than himself. At just 19 years old, he had his sights set on Beta Theta Pi, one of the most respected fraternities at Pennsylvania State University. To Tim, pledging meant brotherhood — an unbreakable, lifelong bond with men who would have his back. But what he couldn’t see was the danger lurking beneath the surface. Behind the promises of tradition and unity was a brutal culture of hazing, one that didn’t just test loyalty — it pushed young men to the edge of what their bodies and spirits could endure. For some, like Tim, the price would prove far too high. Listen now to hear the full story.



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[SPEAKER_01]: Celebrated author, Felicia Gold, resident of Bedford, and member of the Kai Theta Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority incorporated is thrilled to announce the release of her debut cozy mystery novel, Text, Tea, and Tragedy. [SPEAKER_01]: The first in the captivating Bella Hawkins Mystery series. [SPEAKER_01]: Set in the quaint and charming town of Bedford, Texas, this cozy mystery promises readers a blend of suspense, heart, and hope.

[SPEAKER_01]: The novel is now available on Amazon and Kindle, and will soon be in some bookstores and retailers. [SPEAKER_01]: In Texas, tea and tragedy, Bella Hawkins and Autistic English Professor with a unique ability to perceive details others miss, relocates to Bedford after a turbulent breakup. [SPEAKER_01]: As she settles into her new life, she quickly finds herself entangled in the town's deep-rooted mysteries.

[SPEAKER_01]: With her intuitive nature and sharp intellect, Bella must navigate the complexities of new friendships, old wounds, and the dark secrets that threaten the peace of this seemingly idyllic community. [SPEAKER_01]: The novel's gripping plot unfolds as bodies start piling up, and Bella's determination to solve the mystery leads her to an unconventional friendship with Kamar, a misunderstood local artist.

[SPEAKER_01]: As Bella gets closer to uncovering the truth, she realizes that saving Kamar may come at a high price, unearthing the town's hidden secrets and facing the danger that lurks within. [SPEAKER_01]: Felicia masterfully weaves a story that explores the themes of resilience, courage, and the enduring human spirit.

[SPEAKER_01]: Through Bella Hawkins, readers will experience the journey of a woman driven by hope, fighting to protect those she cares about, while learning to heal her own heart. [SPEAKER_01]: Felicia Gold is an acclaimed author known for her insightful and engaging storytelling. [SPEAKER_01]: Her works often delve into the complexities of human relationships and the power of hope.

[SPEAKER_01]: With text, tea and tragedy, she introduces a protagonist that readers will root for, admire, and relate to on many levels. [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, campus cronies. [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to Campus Crime Chronicles. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host, Dr. Nicole Turner, Higher Education Professional and True Crime Addict.

[SPEAKER_01]: In every episode of this podcast, I take a deep dive into some sort of true crime that occurred on a school campus or a crime that's associated with a college or university in some way. [SPEAKER_01]: For each episode, I rate the seriousness of the crime from one to five on my serious crime scale, with one being completely not serious, possibly even a little humorous from time to time, to five being very serious.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, y'all, before we dive in, I want to take a moment to acknowledge that this is my one hundredth episode. [SPEAKER_01]: Can you believe it? [SPEAKER_01]: Y'all have been hanging on with me for a hundred episodes of Campus Crime Chronicles, and I couldn't be more thrilled to have such dedicated listeners as all of you. [SPEAKER_01]: So first, [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: From the bottom of my heart, I sincerely thank you for your unwavering support of my little podcast that could. [SPEAKER_01]: I also want to share with you that this episode, this story you're about to hear, was one of the core inspirations that led me to start the podcast in the first place. [SPEAKER_01]: From day one, I knew I wanted to cover this story and bring attention to this important topic.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I also knew it would be a challenging one, complex, emotional, and controversial. [SPEAKER_01]: It would require double, maybe triple, the research, and an incredible amount of time to piece everything together carefully from start to finish. [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to be sure I handled it with the care and accuracy it needs and deserves. [SPEAKER_01]: I kept thinking when the time is right, all tell Tempioz's heartbreaking story, and I'll make sure to do it justice.

[SPEAKER_01]: I realized that the hundredth episode was the right time. [SPEAKER_01]: So with that, this episode is rated a five. [SPEAKER_01]: In the spring of twenty seventeen, Timothy Piazza was like many college sophomores, eager to find his place, to build lasting friendships, and to be part of something bigger than himself. [SPEAKER_01]: At just nineteen years old, he had a site set on Beta Theta Pi, one of the most respected fraternities at Pennsylvania State University.

[SPEAKER_01]: To Tim, pledging meant brotherhood, an unbreakable lifelong bond with men who would have his back, men of principle. [SPEAKER_01]: But what he couldn't see was the danger lurking beneath the surface. [SPEAKER_01]: Behind the promises of tradition and unity was a brutal culture of hazing [SPEAKER_01]: One that didn't just test loyalty. [SPEAKER_01]: It pushed young men to the edge of what their bodies and spirits could endure.

[SPEAKER_01]: For some, like Tim, the price would prove far too high. [SPEAKER_01]: This episode is titled Death by Hazing, so without further ado, let's get started. [UNKNOWN]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_01]: In part one of this episode, we left off with the culture of excessive drinking among the brothers of Beta Theta Pi, which led to a culture of intense, severe and cruel hazing. [SPEAKER_01]: And all of this was brought to light during the investigation after Tempiotz's death.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, y'all. [SPEAKER_01]: It was discovered that Tim was given eighteen drinks in a span of eighty-two minutes, none of which he ever poured or obtained on his own. [SPEAKER_01]: So naturally, people wanted answers as to how this could happen. [SPEAKER_01]: But as I said toward the end of Part One, Beta wasn't the exception among the Greek organizations at Penn State. [SPEAKER_01]: It was the norm.

[SPEAKER_01]: You see, the investigation uncovered troubling patterns across numerous fraternities, pointing to a deeply rooted systemic problem woven into the very fabric of Greek life on campus. [SPEAKER_01]: This wasn't a few bad actors. [SPEAKER_01]: It was a culture in need of a serious reckoning and overhaul. [SPEAKER_01]: And to give you a clearer sense of just how pervasive it was, let me share a few examples so you can see exactly what I mean.

[SPEAKER_01]: According to court documentation, James Bevenzio was a student who attended Penn State from twenty-twelve to twenty-fourteen. [SPEAKER_01]: During his freshman year, when he was only eighteen, he pledged the fraternity, capa delta rho, or KDR. [SPEAKER_01]: Though being in a fraternity wasn't necessarily a personal goal of his own, he said he joined because his girlfriend at the time decided to rush a sorority.

[SPEAKER_01]: and it was known that non-greek males often cannot access or attend the same parties if they are not part of the Greek community. [SPEAKER_01]: And since he didn't want to lose his girlfriend and or be ostracized from exclusive Greek events, he decided to pledge a fraternity. [SPEAKER_01]: Similar to the other fraternities on campus, James went through a two week long rush period from September seventh to September twenty second, twenty twelve.

[SPEAKER_01]: During the second week, KDR hosted a party every night, which always included unlimited alcohol, often accompanied by various drinking games like flip cup and beer pong, and an open bar with several handles of liquor. [SPEAKER_01]: James recalled that each event had a different theme meant to impress potential pledges.

[SPEAKER_01]: On one particular night, the fraternity hosted a strip club night in which three strippers were hired to perform in the basement of the front house during a party with hundreds of people. [SPEAKER_01]: On another night, the theme involved a crate race, which is basically milk crates filled with multiple bottles of liquor. [SPEAKER_01]: During this crate race, each Rashi was paired up and given a crate full of alcohol.

[SPEAKER_01]: The first pair or team to finish the crate won the race. [SPEAKER_01]: But the thing is, if a Rashi refused to participate in these events, he was told to leave immediately and would not receive a bid to the fraternity.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then, on bid acceptance night, James said the brothers of KDR took all the pledges cell phones and directed them to the basement, where a trash can't awaited them in the center of the room, which was next to anywhere from fifty to seventy cases of beer. [SPEAKER_01]: The pledges were then instructed to finish all of the beer before they could come back upstairs.

[SPEAKER_01]: Court documentation notes that this resulted in each pledge consuming about fifteen beers in a matter of only one hour. [SPEAKER_01]: James recalled that they were all drinking a beer a minute in order to finish it. [SPEAKER_01]: Then, once they were done, the pledges were lined up against a wall upstairs and instructed to pass around a bottle of liquor. [SPEAKER_01]: They had to finish the entire bottle before it returned to the first person in line.

[SPEAKER_01]: But wait, that's not all. [SPEAKER_01]: Before the night ended, the pledges were forced to play a drinking game called Edward Forty Hands, where the brothers duct taped two forty ounce bottles of beer to the pledges' hands, and they didn't remove the taped bottles until the pledges finished drinking both of the beers. [SPEAKER_01]: However, that was just during rush week.

[SPEAKER_01]: Even more intense hazing, physical hazing combined with forced alcohol consumption began on September twenty second and lasted through the second week of December. [SPEAKER_01]: So basically the entire semester. [SPEAKER_01]: For instance, at one point, KDR brothers forced the pledges to stand around a trash can with a bottle of liquor. [SPEAKER_01]: Each pledge had to drink from the bottle until he vomited before he could pass the bottle to the next person.

[SPEAKER_01]: Another time, the pledges had to sit against a wall and pass around a forty-five pound weight until their muscles literally gave out. [SPEAKER_01]: After which, they were given a bottle of water full of liquor to drink. [SPEAKER_01]: Then, to make things worse, the brothers ordered the pledges to engage in calisthenics until they reached the point of exhaustion.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you all throughout the entire time of this lineup, as they called them, brothers threw cigarettes at the pledges and smashed glass bottles at their feet. [SPEAKER_01]: And as bad as this sounds, it gets way worse. [SPEAKER_01]: According to court documentation, quote, the line-ups became even worse when the fraternity brothers filled a large pot with a concoction of things such as hot sauce, catnip, cat food, urine, semen, shampoo.

[SPEAKER_01]: conditioner, alcohol, and bread chunks, warmed it up and forced the pledges to drink from it. [SPEAKER_01]: They dubbed this portion of the lineup as the pot. [SPEAKER_01]: The pledges would have to pass the pot from one to another, finishing by the time it reached the last pledge." [SPEAKER_01]: Y'all, this was so disgusting, obviously, but it was so gross that many of the pledges vomited into the pot as they passed it along. [SPEAKER_01]: I just, I can't.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, these line-ups would occur anywhere from one to three times a week during the pledging process, which only escalated in severity until the final week of pledging known as Hell Week. [SPEAKER_01]: That's when a line-up occurred every single night with the final lineup lasting nearly four hours. [SPEAKER_01]: James said the hazing grew so severe during the course of the semester that he reached out to administration through an anonymous hotline to report his experiences.

[SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, Penn State had a [SPEAKER_01]: zero tolerance for hazing. [SPEAKER_01]: However, within five hours of sending the email to Penn State, James received a text from the KDR president in a group chat, and the president was demanding to know who reported the fraternity. [SPEAKER_01]: When nobody fenced up, the hazing only got worse and more intolerable.

[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, the brothers began tracking the pledges movements through the location settings on their iPhones, and they required them to be at the front house between A.A.M. [SPEAKER_01]: and Tin P.M. [SPEAKER_01]: if they were not in class, and to verify all of that, they pulled all of their class schedules. [SPEAKER_01]: At one point, brothers even demanded that James unclog a toilet with his bare hands during a party. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, come on, what the fuck dudes?

[SPEAKER_01]: And just to clarify the type of treatment I'm talking about, let me share a text with you, which was sent from the KDR president to the pledges on November, twelve, twenty-twelfth. [SPEAKER_01]: It said quote, [SPEAKER_01]: You are all fucked. [SPEAKER_01]: I literally can't wait till my exams are over this week so I can dedicate my free time to destroying your lives, dignities, and removing your fucking souls out of your bodies.

[SPEAKER_01]: You do whatever you want whenever you want. [SPEAKER_01]: Who the fuck are you to question brothers or say no? [SPEAKER_01]: The only words that should come out of your mouth are yes sir. [SPEAKER_01]: You are all too comfortable. [SPEAKER_01]: You're fucking slaves. [SPEAKER_01]: Do you think slaves have say in what their masters say and quote? [SPEAKER_01]: According to court documentation, as a result of James pledging KDR, quote, he failed all of his classes during pledging.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Vivenzio claimed that he began smoking as a result of the hazing since one of his duties included carrying a pack of cigarettes on him at all times in case a brother wanted one. [SPEAKER_01]: He also developed a drinking problem due to the mass consumption of alcohol he was forced to endure by KDR. [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, Mr. Vavenzio was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the hazing and he even contemplated suicide.

[SPEAKER_01]: He testified, I was seeing girls on the floor absolutely wasted beyond their belief. [SPEAKER_01]: I's rolling to the back of their heads, you know, crawling on the floor and then being taken back into a guy's room. [SPEAKER_01]: I've seen a lot of just really terrible things happen. [SPEAKER_01]: and quote.

[SPEAKER_01]: According to court documentation, James reported his experiences to multiple administrators at Penn State, and he was finally given a refund on his first semester's tuition for a thing called a trauma drop, whatever that is, which resulted from the hazing he endured in KDR. [SPEAKER_01]: James eventually tried to return to Penn State in the fall of twenty fourteen to resume his studies, but he witnessed that despite his reporting, nothing changed at the fraternity.

[SPEAKER_01]: And although he remained a member of KDR, he never again attended another KDR party or event hosted by the chapter at Penn State. [SPEAKER_01]: But again, let me reiterate. [SPEAKER_01]: This wasn't just about one or two fraternities like KDR or Beta. [SPEAKER_01]: This was the culture of Greek life at Penn State as a whole. [SPEAKER_01]: It ran through nearly every house on campus.

[SPEAKER_01]: There were repeated reports of sexual assaults, most often entangled with alcohol and a Greek organization. [SPEAKER_01]: hazing rituals crossed into the grotesque, like the infamous elephant walk, where pledges were forced into a humiliating chain, and they would shuffle together in a circle, each with a finger in the rectum of the person in front of them, and a hand on the genitals of the one behind them.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then they were the revolting concoctions, you know, the vats of leftover food, like the notorious pot of spaghetti at KDR, or at beta, they called it the beta brew, which is basically the same thing. [SPEAKER_01]: In the Greek parties were massive too, often packing five hundred to a thousand people into one house, and they were always overflowing with alcohol, cannabis, and even harder drugs like cocaine and molly.

[SPEAKER_01]: Between September, twenty fourteen in January, twenty seventeen alone, there were at least seventeen documented incidents tied to fraternities and sororities. [SPEAKER_01]: incidents that weren't just bad nights or regrettable decisions, but they were serious sometimes life altering events. [SPEAKER_01]: So let's walk through some of the most severe cases on that list.

[SPEAKER_01]: On December fourth, twenty-fourteen, an eighteen-year-old young woman reported a sexual assault by four frapp brothers after they gave her alcohol. [SPEAKER_01]: On August twenty-fourth, twenty-fifteen, a woman notified police that her underage sorority sister became intoxicated and unconscious after drinking in a fraternity house and the brothers refused to call an ambulance.

[SPEAKER_01]: A state college police officer had to force his way into the home, locate the victim, and obtain medical assistance. [SPEAKER_01]: Her blood alcohol level was point two eight five, fourteen times the legal limit of point two. [SPEAKER_01]: Then a few days later on August twenty ninth, twenty fifteen, an eighteen-year-old female was sexually assaulted at a frat house, while she was intoxicated in unconscious. [SPEAKER_01]: Her blood alcohol level clocked in at point two nine six.

[SPEAKER_01]: In February of twenty-sixteen, a twenty-year-old man was assaulted outside of a frat house and transported by helicopter from medical treatment due to the severity of his injuries alone. [SPEAKER_01]: On March eighteen, twenty-sixteen, a nineteen-year-old woman was sexually assaulted after being furnished with drugs and alcohol at a fraternity party.

[SPEAKER_01]: The very next day, and intoxicated nineteen-year-old young man, fell from an elevated stage inside a frat house and was airlifted to a hospital for medical treatment. [SPEAKER_01]: In April of twenty-sixteen, a nineteen-year-old pledge was assaulted with a champagne bottle out of frapp party. [SPEAKER_01]: On September twenty-fourth, twenty-sixteen, police discovered a nineteen-year-old visitor from a different university intoxicated unconscious and not breathing.

[SPEAKER_01]: His blood alcohol level registered at point four nine-oh, twenty-five times the legal limit. [SPEAKER_01]: After surviving on a ventilator for a period of time, he eventually recovered and was released from the hospital. [SPEAKER_01]: and then in January of twenty seventeen a twenty-two-year-old frapper other overdose on fentanyl. [SPEAKER_01]: And take note that all but one of those incidents included people under the age of twenty-one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Also, I would be remiss if I didn't mention some alarming statistics noted in court documentation. [SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, in twenty-fourteen, state college police investigated forty-six reported sexual assaults. [SPEAKER_01]: The next year in twenty-fifteen, that number nearly doubled to eighty-three.

[SPEAKER_01]: In twenty sixteen there were seventy five complaints of sexual assault but in March of twenty seventeen just three months into the calendar year police had investigated twenty three reports of sexual assault with sixty to seventy percent of those assaults being both fraternity and alcohol related [SPEAKER_01]: Another example I'd like to share is that of Joe Dotto, who was an eighteen year old freshman at Penn State in the fall of two thousand and nine.

[SPEAKER_01]: According to court documentation, he had gone out with several friends to visit a few of the fraternities on campus where he consumed a large quantity of alcohol at several different fraternity houses. [SPEAKER_01]: When he failed to return to his dorm room that night, police initially launched a missing person investigation. [SPEAKER_01]: But unfortunately, his body was discovered two days later at the bottom of a building on campus.

[SPEAKER_01]: Police later learned that Joe Dotto had died from blunt force trauma to the head as a result of an eighteen foot fall. [SPEAKER_01]: At the time of his death, he had a blood alcohol level of point one-six-nine. [SPEAKER_01]: That night he had visited the Alpha Tao Omega House where he was served several beers and he played beer pong as well as the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity where he was given more beer as well as some whiskey in marijuana.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was last seen leaving the Phi Gamma Delta House before taking the fatal fall. [SPEAKER_01]: And finally, the last example I want to share with you is that of eighteen year old marquee's brand. [SPEAKER_01]: You see, it shows just how pervasive and embedded alcohol and hazing was at not only the main Penn State campus, but also what other campuses too. [SPEAKER_01]: This particular situation occurred in the spring of twenty fourteen at Penn State, Altuna.

[SPEAKER_01]: In the fall of twenty thirteen, Marquis left his home in New York and headed to Altoona, Pennsylvania. [SPEAKER_01]: He was ready to begin his freshman year at the institution that promotes itself as having the appeal of a small college with the prestige of a major research university. [SPEAKER_01]: As a biomechanical engineering major, Mark East was a dedicated student who was academically driven.

[SPEAKER_01]: So when he first mentioned to his father, that hand tended to pledge a fraternity, his dad, Richard Bram, testified that he didn't have any particular concerns for his son's safety. [SPEAKER_01]: The only thing Richard considered was whether Mark East was spreading himself to thin between his course load and his plan to become a resident assistant in the dorms. [SPEAKER_01]: But Marquise assured his dad, quote, dad, this is the only opportunity for me to have any fun."

[SPEAKER_01]: And so, Marquise went through the pledging process, and by the spring of twenty fourteen, he had become a brother of Phi Sigma Kappa. [SPEAKER_01]: Not only that, he was elected into an executive position as the chapter secretary for the spring semester. [SPEAKER_01]: But what Marquise's parents didn't know was that he was quietly suffering some personal demons as a result of joining the fraternity, and they wouldn't know until it was too late.

[SPEAKER_01]: You see Marquise had spent several days at home for spring break during the spring, twenty-fourteen semester. [SPEAKER_01]: On his last day at home, Marquise went to one last lunch with his mother before making his way to the top of a Marriott hotel and plummeting to his death.

[SPEAKER_01]: While his parents were absolutely devastated in the aftermath of the tragedy, they began digging for answers as to why, and they soon piece together the puzzle that led Mark East to take his own life. [SPEAKER_01]: Court documentation notes that when his parents searched his dorm room on campus, they made several alarming discoveries. [SPEAKER_01]: For starters, they found two empty liquor bottles, tattooed with signatures and numbers written in permanent marker.

[SPEAKER_01]: They also found a notebook that listed what appeared to be the Phi Sigma Kappa Hazing Schedule. [SPEAKER_01]: Because they weren't sure what any of it meant, they turned the items over to the university police. [SPEAKER_01]: Then, when his parents access to cell phone, they began to connect more dots. [SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, the alcohol bottles they found were remnants of Marquise's hazing at the hands of his five-submit caper brothers.

[SPEAKER_01]: In a text to a friend, Marquise said he was supposed to finish a whole bottle of one hundred-proof Yukon whiskey by the end of the night. [SPEAKER_01]: The friend responded to Marquise saying, quote, you'll be okay, you'll just puke a lot, and it'll burn." [SPEAKER_01]: End quote.

[SPEAKER_01]: In another text, which was two Marquises R.A., he confided in her that at the end of Hell Week, his fraught brothers, quote, lit a candle and let the wax fall on our back until we finish drinking two bottles of fireball. [SPEAKER_01]: I have some scars from that one. [SPEAKER_01]: and quote. [SPEAKER_01]: Wait though, that's not all.

[SPEAKER_01]: Another series of text messages with his R.A. [SPEAKER_01]: detailed a fight club where the pledges were forced to fight one another while the other brothers watched. [SPEAKER_01]: One of the texts said quote, we were allowed to fall asleep last night but I was too scared. [SPEAKER_01]: I think I have a concussion and I didn't want to fall into a coma and quote.

[SPEAKER_01]: Text also documented trips to the hospital for some pledges and how they were forced to drink straight vinegar and large quantities of milk until they pute. [SPEAKER_01]: In a text to his R.A. [SPEAKER_01]: Marquis said quote, I feel like I've done so much that it can't get any worse, but it always does. [SPEAKER_01]: End quote. [SPEAKER_01]: And he went on to say, quote, when I first started to pledge, I didn't think I would be doing this stuff that I'm doing right now and quote.

[SPEAKER_01]: And by stuff, he was referring to warped hazing rituals like trapping and skinning squirrels and teaching pledges proper chugging and vomiting techniques. [SPEAKER_01]: What? [SPEAKER_01]: Y'all, let me just read you a few sentences directly from the Grand jury report, which documents one of the hazing events on the list found in Marquises dorm room.

[SPEAKER_01]: The report states, quote, one event in particular dubbed Locked In, involved brothers forcing pledges into a small closet with a large garbage bucket. [SPEAKER_01]: To be allowed out of the closet, pledges had to consume enough alcohol to fill the garbage can with vomit. [SPEAKER_01]: The fraternity further controlled the closet door by allowing only executive board members to open it for the pledges."

[SPEAKER_01]: Another event listed on the hazing schedule was called a thighback, which required each pledge to consume four to five beers within thirty minutes to an hour. [SPEAKER_01]: The schedule apparently ordered multiple thighbacks over the course of one evening with notes that the total drinks for the night would likely tally twenty to twenty five per pledge.

[SPEAKER_01]: Brothers also planned a GB or a gravity-bong challenge, which required pledges to take a certain number of hits from marijuana-bong, [SPEAKER_01]: in order to win the challenge.

[SPEAKER_01]: And to take it even further, the fraternity ordered pledges to enter a convenient store wearing a ski mask and still a small item, whether it be gum or chips or a drink, and in order to maintain power and control over the pledges, the brothers would record them doing the act to later use as blackmail if needed.

[SPEAKER_01]: And finally, the grand jury found that one text in particular that was discovered on Marquis' phone was, quote, eerily breathtaking and particularly relevant to the death of Timothy Piazza, and quote. [SPEAKER_01]: The report notes that in his text, Marquis wrote, quote, and trust me, I don't judge. [SPEAKER_01]: I've been too messed up to judge anyone else. [SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't filled down a flight of stairs, blacked out, you're not on my level yet, and quote.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ultimately, according to the Granger report, Marquise's parents concluded that he couldn't quote, bear the guilt of returning to Penn State and meeting out the hazing that so tortured him just months before." [SPEAKER_01]: So, instead, he left to his death. [SPEAKER_01]: Marquise's father, Richard, testified that Penn State's suspended viseic macabre for six years following his son's death.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now that we have a clear picture of just how out of control Greek life was and how it led to Tim Piotta's death, I want to get back to Tim's story. [SPEAKER_01]: The story at hand that sparked this deep dive in the first place. [SPEAKER_01]: But that will have to wait until next time when I release the third and final part of this Chronicle. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you heard that right.

[SPEAKER_01]: I decided that in order to paint the fullest picture for you, and in order to truly understand how college students can lose their lives in such tragic ways associated with hazing and alcohol, I needed to officially break down chronicle one hundred into three separate parts. [SPEAKER_01]: So, in part three, we will bring this story full circle.

[SPEAKER_01]: returning to Tempiozza, including the legal fallout for the eighteen fraternity brothers charged in this case, and the role Penn State's administration played or failed to play in this tragedy. [SPEAKER_01]: And finally, we'll explore the changes that followed, and the glimmers of good that emerged in the wake of such a devastating loss. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, y'all, that brings us to the end of part two of Chronicle One Hundred.

[SPEAKER_01]: As always, be sure to check out my social media where I post photos associated with each case in episode. [SPEAKER_01]: You can find me at Campus Crime Chronicles on both Facebook and Instagram. [SPEAKER_01]: Also to celebrate my one hundredth episode, I would love for y'all to go leave me a review on Apple Podcast specifically because those reviews really shake up the algorithm and they kind of push my podcast to the top or kind of push it to promote it and get it out there.

[SPEAKER_01]: And essentially it just lets other listeners like you know that this podcast is out there. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you listen on Apple, please go over and leave me a review if you haven't done so. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well, that's all for today, so bye for now. [SPEAKER_01]: Campus Crime Chronicles is researched written and recorded by me Nicole Turner, and its edited and produced by GR Gas away. [SPEAKER_01]: Campus Crony Alexis McDonald is my research assistant.

[SPEAKER_01]: Tune in again in two weeks for the next Chronicle.

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