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Courtesy of The Duquesne Duke
Word of a murder swept across the Bluff in 2003 when two former DU football players and a friend with whom they’d attended high school were found guilty of killing a Ridgemont man, Andrew Jones. Craig Elias, Jared Lischhner and Jared Henkel allegedly lured Jones, along with another man, Anthony Brownlee, to a row house on Mt. Washington and accused them of stealing what amounted to $5,000 and drugs. Brownlee was let go when he promised to repay the trio, but Jones’ body was found at the bottom of the Ohio River in March of 2002. Elias was charged with first-degree murder aggravated assault and abuse of a corpse, and Lischner and Henkel were charged with second-degree murder. All three men received kidnapping, criminal conspiracy, robbery and simple assault charges, as well.