MURDERED: Yeardley Love
When 22-year-old Yeardley Love is found murdered in her apartment just a few weeks before graduating college, her friends all point police to one man: George Huguely, her ex-boyfriend. It doesn’t take long for investigators to uncover a disturbing history of domestic abuse, but despite multiple people knowing just how violent George could get, no one spoke up to get the help Yeardley needed.
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Episode Source Material
- University of Virginia: Police Alert via Internet Archive.
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): Huguely case proceeds to grand jury, by Rodger Nayak.
- Washingtonian (Washington, D.C.): George Huguely and Yeardley Love: Love, Death, and Lacrosse, by Harry Jaffe.
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): Prosecution presents video testimony, by Ashley Robertson and Krista Pedersen.
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): Huguely on trial, by Rodger Nayak.
- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD): Huguely sentenced to 23 years in prison for Love’s killing, by Jean Marbella and The Baltimore Sun.
- The Progress-Index (Petersburg, VA): Email becomes focus at lacrosse player’s trial, by Zinie Chen Sampson.
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): Police, EMTs offer testimony, by Krista Pedersen and Katherine Raichlen.
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): State argues Love died of head injury.
- Sports Illustrated: Why did Yeardley Love have to die? via Internet Archive.
- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD): Stained jersey taken from suspect’s home, by Don Markus and Tricia Bishop.
- ABC News: Warning Signs in Murder of Yeardley Love: ‘Nobody Put It All Together’, by Andrea Canning, Emily Friedman, and Sarah Netter.
- Huff Post: George Huguely Case: Evidence Shown, Including Video Of Police Interrogation About Yeardley Love’s Death, by Michael McLaughlin.
- CBS News: George Huguely, man who killed UVA lacrosse player Yeardley Love, takes the stand, by Associated Press.
- The Boston Herald (Boston, MA): Friends: Accused ex-lacrosse player’s mood shifted, by Associated Press.
- The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.): George Huguely murder conviction upheld by appeals court, by Steve Szkotak.
- The Daily News Leader (Staunton, VA): Former UVA student files another appeal of murder conviction via Newspaper.com
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): Huguely attorney files petition for habeas corpus, by Madelyn Weingast.
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): The Verdict, by Ashley Robertson.
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): Huguely may seek retrial, by Liz Heifetz.
- NBC News: Trial to begin in lawsuit over death of UVA lacrosse player Yeardley Love, by Associated Press.
- WTVR CBS6 (Richmond, VA): UVA Men’s Lacrosse Player Charged with Murder of Fellow Student Athlete, by Sandi Cauley.
- The Cavalier Daily (Charlottesville, VA): Experts talk forensics, by Michelle Davis and Katherine Raichlen.
- YouTube: FULL George Huguely Interrogation Tape, by True Crime Review.
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