Halee Rathgeber, a 20-year-old University of Southern Indiana nursing student, was killed. Her body was discovered at a soccer facility in Warrick County, about 15 miles from her workplace, with a gunshot wound to the head.
Her belongings, including her wallet, phone, and key, had also vanished from the scene, according to authorities. Authorities began questioning Halee’s friends and family after learning that she was with Isaiah Hagan on the night of her death due to a lack of forensic and physical evidence.
Hagan claimed he dropped her off at the soccer facility, but phone records and blood evidence found at his home suggested otherwise. On the Outskirts of Town, an episode of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered airing on Oxygen on Wednesday, will look into Halee Rathgeber’s 2017 shooting death. The show will premiere on February 8, 2023, at 11 p.m. ET on the channel.
The episode’s synopsis read:
“Halee Rathgeber enjoys caring for others and aspires to be a nurse, so it defies logic that someone would want her dead; the murder scene reveals nothing to cops, but a jaw-dropping moment in court reveals a lot.”
Isaiah Hagan’s conviction, Halee Rathgeber’s intentions on the night she died, and additional case information
1) A gunshot wound to the head was determined to be the cause of Halee Rathgeber’s death
On April 24, 2017, Halee Rathgeber, a 20-year-old nursing student at the University of Southern Indiana, was found shot to death in the parking lot of the Alcoa Soccer Complex in Warrick County. A mother and her daughter were driving by the parking lot when they discovered her body on the gravel.
A blue towel was discovered next to her body, and she appeared to have been shot in the back of the head. Furthermore, none of her belongings, including her wallet, phone, and keys, were discovered at the crime scene. Two successful autopsies determined her cause of death to be a single gunshot wound to the head.