True Crime in Academia Episode 59: Death in the Dorm Series-The Murder of Michael Deng

Ivory Tower Boiler Room · Mar 17, 2023 · 34m

Hey, true crime friends! This week we are back with our Death in the Dorm series (streaming on Hulu now). This week we are covering the murder of Baruch College freshman, Michael Deng.

Michael Deng was the only child of Chinese immigrants in Flushing Queens, NY. His academic success landed him in one of the best local colleges- Baruch College. There, he wanted to discover himself and decided to pledge with an Asian cultural fraternity- Pi Delta Psi. Sadly, Michael because a victim of a particularly brutal hazing ritual that ended his tragically short life.

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