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For Immediate Release
February 23, 2004
Contacts: David Ottalini, 301 405 4076 or dottalin@umd.edu

A 50 Year-Old Mystery

University of Maryland Registrar Alma Preinkert's Murderer Was Never Found

The Washington, DC police put their best men on the case. More than 500 people were interviewed in the neighborhood hours after the incident. The investigation went on for months. But there were few clues to go on. In the early morning hours of Sunday, February 28, 1954 an intruder broke into the home of Maryland's beloved Registrar Alma Preinkert and when she woke up to find him ransacking her second story bedroom, he stabbed her to death before escaping.

New! - 5/24/04 - see the WUSA-TV "Cold Case" story about Alma Preinkert.

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