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Professor Jake Hemphill discovered the bloody body of his colleague Douglas Reed in a meeting room at the local conference center.

Was this a scholarly debate gone wrong, or did someone have a more personal reason to want Professor Reed dead?

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The Murder Is Academic investigation began on Thursday, June 23, 2022, and will run for about five weeks.

Douglas Reed, an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Mississippi, was found dead at a William Faulkner conference.

Assistant professor Jake Hemphill discovered the body in a meeting room at the Yoknapatawpha County Conference Center (YCCC).

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