KILLER ON CAMPUS

In mid-July 2019 Ally Kostial was a month away from starting at the University of Mississippi when her parents made the 563km trip from their home in St Louis to Oxford, Mississippi, to help get her off-campus apartment ready. It was going to be a busy senior year for 21-year-old Ally, who presided over the student golf and running clubs she had founded and also taught yoga and Pilates classes – all while working toward her business degree with a major in marketing.

“She had her whole life ahead of her,” Ally’s mum, Cindy, wrote of those [US] summer days when she and her husband, Keith, were having so much fun with their daughter and the mundane chores of setting up house that they lingered an extra day, until July 17, 2019. “That goodbye