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		rendall on Sept 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Abuse isn’t an “advising style”: Consequences of M... I only every heard of one murder of an advisor, that took place in 1978 at Stanford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Streleski Edit: Here is a NYT article about 2 other incidents https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/science/27murd.html According to this article, Streleski bludgeoned his professor, not his advisor

aidenn0 on Sept 29, 2020 [–]

Thanks for finding that.

19 years into a doctorate program...

rendall on Sept 29, 2020 | [–]

Yeah. Given the OP, I'm beginning to understand why the murder might have happened, and why the fellow felt so unremittingly justified

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