Death in the Dorms Season 2: Episode 2: Haley Anderson
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Hi, 2020 listeners. We're about to hear the second episode of Death in the Dorms, Season 2, a new true crime series from ABC News Studios. This week, we'll hear about Haley Anderson, a nursing student from Binghamton University whose untimely death sparked outrage in her community, igniting an international search for her killer. Let's listen.
When the story broke, I was still very in the twilight zone of, how could this happen to our friend?
Police found Anderson, who was from Westbury, dead inside an off-campus home on Friday. Someone that's so full of promise and who's going to college and waiting for their degree. That's just a very tragic thing to happen to someone.
I say she's forever 22. That's hard. That's sad to me. Because forever 22 is too young. Mic check, check, check. She was friendly with a huge heart.
Her roommates discovered she was murdered.
That I was made for you. And you were him.
May 9th, 1995, Hayley Anderson was born and I did something in the top 10% of the world. I delivered on my due date. So of course, Hayley would come into the world when she was due, because she was always very tenacious. Haley grew up in Salisbury, New York, very tight-knit community, right in the middle of Long Island. And she was very curious and such a rambunctious little child. And she had a great sense of humor.
Haley and I became close in second grade when we actually shared a class together. We met in second grade. Her and our friend Sydney both came up to me and asked me if I wanted to play, and I said yes, and we have been best friends ever since. Sydney, Haley, and I spent a lot of time together. Every Friday, we would go and get pizza. We would make some YouTube videos. All right, put the car in drive, and we'll go. Okay! That was a major part of our childhood. Is everybody buckled in? Growing up, we were both creative people, but Haley would go do field hockey and track, and she was athletic, she was intelligent. She was on every single honor roll that you could possibly want to be on. Haley was extremely self-sufficient. She grew up in a way where, I mean, her mom was a great example for that. Karen did a lot of things on her own. Karen basically raised her by herself.
I filed for divorce from Haley's dad when Haley was 14 years old. And that was hard. This was a very difficult time for Haley, but we were always very close. So we persevered.
She always wanted everyone around and everyone to be happy, and she didn't want anyone to leave her again, which anyone going through as a child a divorce feels that way. In high school, when people were normally rebelling and going out on parties and sneaking out of the house, Haley was the complete opposite of that. She was a straight-A student. She was a tutor.
when she was setting out looking at colleges. We went to Binghamton University and she walked in on the campus and she fell in love with it. It was really quite large. It was pretty. And it was summertime there because it's a little different in the winter when it snows every day. But she fell in love with Binghamton and that was her choice to go there.
Take off, baby, gonna take off.
Binghamton University is a really good school. It's known for its academics. It's even termed public ivy by our university.
Binghamton is a very well renowned SUNY and it's difficult to get into and I was very proud of her for choosing Binghamton. I thought it was a good fit for her.
SUNY stands for State University of New York, and so it comprises all the universities and colleges that are public schools. It's very recognizable within the state of New York to then go get a job.
As a kid who grew up in Long Island, it's very common for you and a lot of your friends to go to SUNY schools. At that time, Binghamton was, I mean and still is, has such a high regard as a SUNY school. And so when she made the decision to go there, I was very excited for her.
Binghamton University, it's not really in the city. You have to take a bus or a car to go there. And so the campus is very chill, relaxed, very comparable to many public schools in the US. The city, on the other hand, is very, I would say, rundown. So IBM started in Binghamton, and it produced a ton of manufacturing jobs. And Binghamton was booming at one time in its history.
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