Sanctuary Shattered: The Magee Family Tragedy

Description: On a quiet Tuesday morning in July 1970, the domestic peace of West Pleasant Avenue in Syracuse, New York, was obliterated. John Magee Sr., a respected professor at Syracuse University, returned home to find his 36-year-old wife, Geraldine, and his 14-year-old son, John Jr., brutally murdered. There was no forced entry, no robbery, and no obvious motive—only a scene of extreme, personal violence that suggested the killer was someone they knew or someone who had been watching. Fifty-five years later, the identity of the person who turned a professor’s home into a house of horrors remains one of Syracuse's most haunting unsolved mysteries.

Inside This Episode:

• The Professor’s  ...