<p>BC, lol, you picked non-contact sports. Maybe, you should add boxing to the mix. But, yes, hockey is a violent sport. But I’ll google around and see if I can find one…</p>
<p>Not every college student who beats a woman to death is an athlete either. Some are, some aren’t. Same with other violent crimes against female college students.</p>
<p>I’m sure there will be a discussion about whether or not the “culture” in which the suspect was raised played a factor here. I don’t know anything about this guy specifically, but if he was a part of a system which treated its athletes differently than others (not holding them accountable for misdeeds, both minor and major specifically), I can see that over time this feeling that rules, laws, standards of behavior, etc., “don’t apply to me because I’m ‘special’” could become ingrained into his psyche. Or perhaps he was in fact raised in a home where his father figure was physically abusive to his wife and kids-we all know that this kind of pattern is often repeated generation after generation. Maybe he is a sociopath who has no conscience, or perhaps he has borderline personality disorder and cannot take rejection (assuming she tried to break up with him). There are any number of factors which could have contributed to this horrible act, and I’m sure we will hear all the theories as time goes on.</p>
<p>In Wayland, MA, in 2011, 18 year old Nathaniel Fujita murdered Lauren Astley. While Fujita was a football star, he was also a track star. (you were looking for track star murderers) Do you want to blame that on the fact he played football or that he ran track?</p>
<p>While not a college athlete, Mark “Gator” Rogowski was a professional skateboarder who beat his ex-girlfriend to death with a “club.” Skateboarding is not really a contact sport.</p>
<p>BCEagle91…this murderer is not a college athlete. If you read the news stories, they indicate that he recently started college (at age 21). </p>
<p>The media’s reference to his hockey-star status is a bit misleading. He played ice hockey in high school. Assuming he graduated at 18, he stopped playing competitive hockey three years ago.</p>
<p>post 48: mom2boy, you are right, this boy who is accused of the recent murder no longer plays hockey, or at least not at the college level. He played back in high school, which is three years ago. We could take every man who beats a woman and possibly trace back to their school years that they may have played sports!</p>
<p>Suzie, I think it was Tonya’s BF or husband who attacked Nancy, but Tonya did hit her BF (or hubby) with a hubcap. Ahhh, our homegrown, PNW white trash…</p>
<p>I don’t recall any evidence that Tonya Harding intended to kill Nancy Kerrigan and I have never seen any evidence that the two were romantically involved.</p>
<p>As far as tennis violence goes, the scariest thing that I’ve seen is when Serena threatened that lineswoman over a disputed call. The look on her face did look like she could kill her.</p>
<p>The Fujita-Astley case was very close to home for us.</p>
<p>In reading about this most recent incident, I immediately recalled that the father was concerned about Lauren’s late return from her job – which was early on a Sunday evening.</p>
<p>Again, most parents would not be concerned that their child was not home early on a Sunday evening – clearly, the father already knew that Lauren was in danger.</p>
<p>According to what I just read, he knocked her out by hitting her. He then raped her and then killed her by asphyxiation (hand over her mouth, not strangling which would have been more consistent with rage). He buried her body. The police discovered that he killed her when he voluntarily confessed - they otherwise didn’t know who did it.</p>
<p>The hockey guy wasn’t a current athlete but he was in the culture of violent sport before college.</p>
<p>Other stuff from the forums: he was at a bar with two friends and had an argument via text message with her. It sounded like she broke up with him over his seeing another woman. Then he went over to her dorm. He knocked out her roommate and then killed her.</p>
<p>Police did a good job catching him in about an hour after discovering her death.</p>
<p>There’s other stuff in the forums about this guy and his past. Details on the stuff that was sealed that I won’t post here.</p>
<p>That was stated repeatedly in the comments section I read. However, none of the news reports I have seen even mention a roommate. If this did happen, roommate’s testimony would be crucial. That’s assuming she could remember it all…</p>
<p>Please remember that there are violent crimes against young women on college campuses and off by men who are not athletes as well. </p>
<p>Examples:
Annie Le at Yale
Lauren Spierer at Indiana (unsolved case actually, but not centered around athletes)
Jessica Faulkner at UNC-Wilmington
Christen Naujoks at UNC-Wilmington</p>
<p>Homicides on campus are still a rarity. Crimes and violence against women are not such a rarity unfortunately. And the men who commit assaults on women are not all athletes.</p>
<p>Nalbandian wasn’t mad at the linesperson though and didn’t hit the guy. He just aimed at a point near the linesperson which resulted in the injury. In tennis, the person that you’re the angriest against is yourself. The vast majority of players take out their anger on their racquets or the tennis ball. There’s a YouTube video of a guy at the Australian Open sitting down, breaking a racquet, taking another out of his bag, breaking it, taking another, and breaking it. His racquets are probably worth $400 each so that’s an expensive way to take out your anger. You can get a bunch of $30 racquets at WalMart for the same effect.</p>
<p>On forensic evidence - I expect that there will be a ton of it. He would have had to sign in and probably register as a night guest and they would have had some record of his license plate information (which is probably how they caught him so quickly). He didn’t seem like the kind of guy that watched a lot of episodes of CSI to avoid getting caught. So I’d expect evidence like blood and other DNA on his person and his DNA at the crime scene. He supposedly hit the roommate with an iron, so there should be fingerprint and DNA evidence.</p>
<p>I will look at the other four examples later on. I’m in a place with an intermittent MiFi signal - which means it’s on and off. When it’s on, it feels like dialup speed.</p>
<p>I think it’s pretty sickening to bring sports into intimate partner violence. It demonstrates a gross lack of understanding about the topic. </p>
<p>And yes, I can name assailants who are professors, cops, athletes, politicians, plumbers and everything in between. Want to know what they have in common? They beat their partners. Period.</p>