The Murder on My Running Trail

Last Thursday morning, a nursing student named Laken Riley, a junior at the University of Georgia, went out for her morning jog in Athens. Riley was an avid runner, well-known in the local running community, and had recently competed in the annual AthHalf, one of Athens's most beloved institutions. She took her regular route around Lake Herring, an on-campus trail adjacent to Oconee Forest Park, near the campus' Intramural Fields. When she failed to return home, her roommate, a fellow runner and Riley's best friend, called the police. Within the next hour, they found Riley's lifeless body, in...