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The identity and motive of the killer are still unknown, but many suspect Culianu’s death had something to do with his outspoken criticism of the Romanian fascist group the Iron Guard. Labor History professor Gabriel Winant regaled the audience with “The Cold Case,” the story of Romanian dissident Ioan Culianu, a professor of religious history in the Divinity School at UChicago who was murdered in the third-floor bathroom of Swift Hall in 1991.
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Professor Faith Hillis tells "The Disappeared," the elaborate story of former UChicago Professor of Russian History Thomas Riha's mysterious 1969 disappearance. Hillis noted that all the details of this scary story are available to read online in a now-declassified trove of government documents that is several hundred pages long. Edgar Hoover), various mysterious deaths connected to other women Riha had been involved with, and numerous other larger-than-life happenings. His fate remains uncertain to this day, but the story involved years of intrigue, a bitter divorce, a feud between the FBI and the CIA (including involving J. Riha had by the time of his disappearance moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he was teaching Russian History. Professor of Russian History Faith Hillis started off the evening with “The Disappeared,” in which she related the many thrilling twists and turns in the story of how Thomas Riha, a Czech-born professor of history who at one time held the same position as Hillis at UChicago, mysteriously disappeared in 1969. Students gathered outside the Social Sciences Research Building in the early evening and walked to various spots to hear spooky tales related to the history of the University and its campus. On October 25, the History Department hosted its first Haunted History Halloween Campus Tour.