Who killed Michael Plume?
Around his neck was an expertly tied hangman’s noose. His highly polished combat shoes barely touched the platform. The dead man was clothed in blue jeans, a dark windbreaker, and gray woolen gloves. Dust and debris covered the ground just below his clean, black shoes. It was 7 a.m. on Feb. 15, 1960, when the morning construction crew discovered the man hanging in the partially completed IU football stadium. An investigation began that morning and ended two months later. But for the father of the man in dark clothes and clean shoes, the case is far from closed. At about 7:15 a.m., Bloomington Chief of Police and Monroe County Deputy Coroner George E. Huntington received word that a man’s body had been discovered in the new stadium. He arrived on the scene fewer than 10 minutes later to find the area crowded with police officers, university officials, and local reporters. After surveying the scene briefly – and without securing the area or collecting any evidence – Huntington pronounced
