Show Notes
His first night of pledging would be the last of his life. In 2017, 19-year-old Tim Piazza fell down the basement stairs at Penn State’s Beta Theta Pi house. When Kordel Davis, a fellow brother, begged them to call 911, he was shoved into a wall. It would be 12 hours before anyone called for help. Tim’s mom, Evelyn Piazza, and Kordel share what happened that night, and the cover-up that followed.
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