Been stabbed to death in her rented house, and her ex-boyfriend had been charged with her killing. Since the fatal stabbing had happened off campus and since the newspaper was not staffed to pick up quickly on crime news, there would be little time to piece together a full story for the next day’s edition. Might the newspaper make an impact, Hillier and Patterson wondered aloud, by packaging a brief account of the slaying with news of the previous weekend’s beating, illustrated by the photo? Patterson enlisted staffers who scrambled to pull together other recent news of serious crime.