Student Murdered While Playing Piano at New Jersey College
Sigrid Stevenson’s violent murder has been unsolved for 47 years.
Sigrid Miller Stevenson was a 25-year-old master’s student at Trenton State College in New Jersey. Originally from Livermore, California, Sigrid aspired to become a music teacher.
The young woman was described as a free spirit and had started playing the piano at a young age. Her friend Carol Edson recalled,
“When she would play the piano, a completely different side of her would emerge that was just calm and powerful.”
At 11:30 PM on September 4, 1977, Officer Thomas Kokotajlo of the Trenton State Campus Police was on patrol when he noticed a green bike by the side entrance to Kendall Hall,
“My shift started at 11 o’clock. I’m driving on campus, past the theatre. As my car pulled up, my headlights captured a bicycle that was chained to the railing. I could see that it was a female’s bike, no one was supposed to be on campus for another three to four days.”
The officer entered the building, lit only by emergency lights, and walked down the hall to the theater. He spotted a figure lying…
