Unsolved Mysteries: The Brutal Murder of Sigrid Miller Stevenson?
Netflix announced that the true crime series, Unsolved Mysteries, is returning for a new season that will feature 5 more cases. According to the platform, this is the most unique season of all, and among its cases, we will be able to see “a severed head that has not been identified, a woman who died mysteriously in a basement, a mysterious flying creature that has been sighted in the Chicago area, a young woman who suffered a brutal death and her killer has escaped justice. And the famous case of Jack the Ripper, which has never been solved.”
The first trailer for Unsolved Mysteries Season 4 (coming to Netflix July 31) revealed some key details about the upcoming cases, including an image of a 1970s ID with Sigrid Miller Stevenson‘s name on it and a photo of her with short hair and a smile. That ID is connected to a criminal case from the 1970s. Stevenson is the protagonist of a brutal and bloody case that has remained unsolved for more than four decades. The series has already shown terrifying cases, such as that of the murderer Xavier Dupont, but Sigrid’s case could be one of the most disturbing.
Unsolved Mysteries: What Happened to Sigrid Miller Stevenson?
The case of Sigrid Miller Stevenson, a 25-year-old college student pursuing her master’s degree in music, happened on September 4, 1977, at what was then Trenton State College. As reported in a New York Times article: “The nude body of the victim, Sigrid Stevenson, of Livermore, California, was discovered by a campus security officer on Sunday night as he was checking the auditorium at Calvin Kendall Hall after spotting a bicycle chained to a fence at the side entrance”. What was even more bizarre was that someone had tried to cover the body with a piano cover.
The report says Sigrid’s body, which was found just days before school started, showed signs of having been hit with an object (she had fractures to her skull and wounds to her face and body), her hands were tied, and blood was found splashed in the school auditorium. The body was found on the auditorium stage. Before her death, Sigrid is said to have taken a trip across Canada and returned to prepare for the start of school. The night after September 4, according to the news site nj.com, a school official saw her bicycle chained to one of the gates of Kendall Hall and decided to go inside to see if anyone was inside. The building was locked, but he managed to get inside and that’s when he discovered the crime scene.
Some people close to Sigrid said she was probably in the auditorium to play the piano, as it was one of her favorite activities, but that could not be proven. The robbery was ruled out as a motive because Stevenson’s wallet was still there with the body, and the possibility of sexual abuse was also ruled out after analyzing the body and finding no signs pointing to that. Despite the brutality of the crime and the fact that several people who were present at the construction site she was supposedly at the night before were interviewed, no culprit was ever discovered or suspect named, and as time went on, Sigrid’s case became a Cold Case, and then an urban legend, with university students claiming that her ghost was still out there.
The Cold and Missing podcast recounts that after some students began talking about Sigrid’s ghost in 2016, a medium went to the scene of the murder and said she thought Sigrid had been attacked by someone who knew her or might have had contact with her before, but that theory could not be proven either. For now, the killer’s identity and motives remain a mystery.
