Karen told ESPN that Joe Paterno was “involved” with the case. She recalls being told by investigators that there was not enough evidence to prosecute. State College police sent fingerprints from the scene to the FBI, who traced the prints to Hodne, which were on file from the record store robbery.Ī police report said that local officers asked Paterno about where to find Hodne, and that Paterno suggested reaching him through his roommate, Ragucci.Īnother former Penn State student, Karen, who also chose not to provide her last name, had reported to police a sexual assault similar to the other accusers’. Susan’s case was dropped due to alleged lack of evidence, including a detective in the case contaminating a lightbulb that would have contained Hodne’s fingerprints. State College police, receiving this lead, sent fingerprints from the scene at Sailor’s apartment to the FBI, who traced the prints to Hodne, which were on file from the record store robbery.
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Susan’s father, who worked for the phone company, was able to trace the calls to the serial predator. She asked him what he was doing and he said, ‘Waiting for a ride.'”Īnother woman, Susan, who chose not to give her last name, had a similar story about being burglarized and held at knifepoint by Hodne after she had advertised that she was seeking a roommate. She refused saying, ‘What are you going to do? Don’t put anything inside me.'” Actor then began moving around the room opening dresser drawers.
“… she heard him open the back door (outside exit) and then he came back in. Actor then put his clothes on and went out of the room. He said ‘say you like it,’ she said, ‘no, because I don’t.’ Actor then began to rape complainant and she said, ‘Please don’t cum inside because I’m not using birth control and don’t want to become pregnate over something like this.’ He said OK but complainant does not know if he did or not. He then moved to her crotch and began licking. The police report described the rest of the incident as follows: “Actor returned and he took off all his clothes and sat on her chest and put his penis to her mouth and told her to suck it, she said she couldn’t do that, he became angry so she opened her mouth and he put it in. “The next thing you know,” Sailor said, “I had a hand around my mouth and a knife at my neck, and a voice said, ‘I’ll kill you if you say a word.'” Later, while about to study for a test, she flipped on the light switch in her bedroom, and the light did not turn on. One man had called, purportedly on behalf of his girlfriend. Several months after the burglary, a then-21-year-old Penn State student named Betsy Sailor was interviewing prospective roommates. All the time, even when you were having a conversation.” “It had a leather sheath, and he would take the sheath on and off, on and off.
“He was always playing with it when he was in the room,” Ragucci said. Ragucci recalled to ESPN that Hodne was fascinated with his knife. Paterno arranged for Hodne to room with Fred Ragucci, a senior on the football team who was on the straight and narrow, presumably in the hopes that conscientious behavior would rub off on the troubled linebacker. Head coach Joe Paterno suspended Hodne for the entire season, telling reporters at the time that the linebacker would be able to eventually return to the team “if he has a good academic year and if he proves to us that was a mistake.”
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Along with one other Nittany Lion teammate plus one of his friends from growing up, Hodne was convicted of burglarizing a record store, in which the trio stole about $800 worth of merchandise. Dominic High School in Oyster Bay, arrived at Penn State in 1977 and his documented crimes began in 1978. In excruciating detail, the ESPN story recounts how Hodne broke into women’s apartments in State College and raped them at knifepoint. The atrocities committed by former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky are well-documented, but until now the crimes of a former defensive player in the program have gone almost entirely uncovered.ĮSPN’s Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne published an extensive report on the violent crimes by linebacker Todd Hodne, who sexually assaulted several women - at least - at Penn State, before committing more rapes and an eventual murder in New York.
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