Volume 44, Number 6 · April 10, 1997
Murder in Chicago
By Umberto Eco
Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu
by Ted Anton
Northwestern University Press, 301 pp., $24.95
On May 21, 1991, Ioan Culianu, a young (forty-one) and brilliant professor of the history of religion at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, stepped into the stall of the restroom of his department. Someone in the adjoining stall climbed onto the toilet seat, aimed a Beretta .25 at the professor's head, and killed him. As the Cook County medical examiner Robert Stein remarked, 'To kill with one shot from a .25 at that distance, that's not easy.' Which immediately suggested a professional killer.
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