The Unsolved Murder of Arlis Perry
The girl who was brutally raped and murdered in a church on Stanford University’s campus was Arlis Perry. This nineteen year old college student was going through her normal day to day routine and was unexpectedly murdered. For forty years this case has been opened and never yet has been solved. The murderer of Arlis Perry seems to be a guy named David Berkowitz from New York in which he wrote a book and put clues as if he killed Arlis. Arlis Perry was a nineteen year old Stanford University student who lived with her husband of just a couple months near campus. Arlis Perry had just moved from Bismarck, North Dakota to Palo Alto, California to be with her husband and attend college with him. She was stalked and killed on the 13th of October, 1974 in an on campus church. Arlis was walking on campus with her husband, Bruce Perry, when she then went into the Stanford
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The victim’s pants were upside down, laying over her legs, creating a possible satanic symbol. People believed for decades that Perry’s death was part of a satanic ritual (Calhoun). Other people have told stories of meeting people that they believe could be the person who performed this ritual on Arlis. They also found a pile of semen next to the body while she had a three foot candlestick pushed up her blouse. The area around the body was prepared for a ritualistic murder. There were six three foot candlesticks placed in a semicircle with the body in the middle. At first, the authorities tested the DNA of the semen next to the body, but never ended up finding any evidence of who the killer could be. They then try to salvage the fingerprints off of the candlesticks that were set around the scene. After many tests and attempts at finding strong prints they find nothing. Authorities continue to find failed leads and proceed to look in the wrong