Sep 14, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 16 segments
Gallaudet University freshman Eric Plunkett was beaten and strangled to death inside his dorm room just weeks after arriving on campus. Months later, fellow freshman Benjamin Varner was found brutally…
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Gallaudet University student Eric Plunkett was beaten and strangled to death inside his dorm room weeks after starting his freshman year.
A few months later, another student was stabbed to death in his dorm, sparking fear among the students that a killer was hiding among them.
And you pointed it out when we were doing our Patreon, I don't know if this is good or bad timing, because this episode could scare a lot of parents-
... who might be sending their kids back to school, or might be sending their freshman to school for the first time.
As a result, he was sometimes unsteady on his feet, and he experienced profound hearing loss.
According to the Washington Post, his parents read books on how to raise deaf children and took sign language courses.
Raising a kid is hard enough when they're 100% healthy with no, uh, challenges.
But if you have a kid who is born with some challenges like this, it's just gonna make it even that more difficult, and that's such a young age, right? Eight months to find out that, uh, you know, he was deaf.
His sister Erin recalled that Eric was confident, outgoing, and he had a lot of friends.
He was also a curious person who liked to take things apart and see how they were made.
Gallaudet University student Eric Plunkett was beaten and strangled to death inside his dorm room weeks after starting his freshman year.
A few months later, another student was stabbed to death in his dorm, sparking fear among the students that a killer was hiding among them.
And you pointed it out when we were doing our Patreon, I don't know if this is good or bad timing, because this episode could scare a lot of parents-
... who might be sending their kids back to school, or might be sending their freshman to school for the first time.
As a result, he was sometimes unsteady on his feet, and he experienced profound hearing loss.
According to the Washington Post, his parents read books on how to raise deaf children and took sign language courses.
Raising a kid is hard enough when they're 100% healthy with no, uh, challenges.
But if you have a kid who is born with some challenges like this, it's just gonna make it even that more difficult, and that's such a young age, right? Eight months to find out that, uh, you know, he was deaf.
His sister Erin recalled that Eric was confident, outgoing, and he had a lot of friends.
He was also a curious person who liked to take things apart and see how they were made.
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