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Terry professor feared for life after map to her house found in Zinkhan's Jeep
Staff reports
Issue date: 5/12/09 Section: News
The Oconee County Sheriff's Office responded to a call from the FBI to ensure the safety of a University professor after a Mapquest search to her home was discovered in the abandoned Jeep of accused murderer George M. Zinkhan.
Barbara Carroll, an associate professor in the Terry College of Business, was visited by Oconee County deputies at 4 a.m. May 1, hours after Zinkhan's Jeep was discovered in a ravine in northwestern Athens-Clarke County. Lee Weems, Chief Deputy of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office, confirmed his office received a 3 a.m. call from the FBI and conducted a welfare check on Carroll. Carroll was interviewed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and was advised to go into hiding.
Zinkhan was Carroll's boss when he headed Terry's Department of Marketing and Distribution from 1994 until 2001. In an e-mail sent to The Red & Black, Carroll detailed her ordeal of the events to coworkers at Terry College. She wrote the officers surrounded her house at 4 a.m. after finding the mapquest map in the Jeep. She said she's been in hiding since Wednesday of last week.
"We'll never know the full story, but i have told you as colleagues, multiple department heads, multiple deans, and multiple provosts that george zinkhan (sic) was dangerous," she wrote. "And i do not believe that zinkhan (sic) had a map to my house for any reason other than he had planned to kill me as well on april 25 (the map was printed out the night before) this also suggests premeditation for the three murders he did commmit. by the grace of god, i was at the movies all saturday afternoon on april 25 after being at school in my office (like a sitting duck) all that morning" she wrote.
Zinkhan's body was discovered in a shallow grave Saturday in a wooded area not far from where the Jeep was found.
Carroll was the subject of news reports in 2008 after the The Red & Black discovered she received a salary increase from $87,660 in 2007 to $144,667 in 2008 despite findings from the University's Office of Legal Affairs that she violated the the non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy, according to University documents.
The settlement agreement, release and covenant not to sue, was signed in in early 2008 by Carroll, Terry College Dean Robert T. Sumichrast and University Provost Arnett Mace, and allows Carroll to maintain her upgraded salary until Jan. 1, 2011, when she will retire after 25 years with the University.
"The university finally settled with me, without ever admitting any responsibility, and I retire in 1.5 years ... forced by Arnett Mace to sign a covenant not to sue," Carroll responded in an e-mail Monday.
Barbara Carroll, an associate professor in the Terry College of Business, was visited by Oconee County deputies at 4 a.m. May 1, hours after Zinkhan's Jeep was discovered in a ravine in northwestern Athens-Clarke County. Lee Weems, Chief Deputy of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office, confirmed his office received a 3 a.m. call from the FBI and conducted a welfare check on Carroll. Carroll was interviewed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and was advised to go into hiding.
Zinkhan was Carroll's boss when he headed Terry's Department of Marketing and Distribution from 1994 until 2001. In an e-mail sent to The Red & Black, Carroll detailed her ordeal of the events to coworkers at Terry College. She wrote the officers surrounded her house at 4 a.m. after finding the mapquest map in the Jeep. She said she's been in hiding since Wednesday of last week.
"We'll never know the full story, but i have told you as colleagues, multiple department heads, multiple deans, and multiple provosts that george zinkhan (sic) was dangerous," she wrote. "And i do not believe that zinkhan (sic) had a map to my house for any reason other than he had planned to kill me as well on april 25 (the map was printed out the night before) this also suggests premeditation for the three murders he did commmit. by the grace of god, i was at the movies all saturday afternoon on april 25 after being at school in my office (like a sitting duck) all that morning" she wrote.
Zinkhan's body was discovered in a shallow grave Saturday in a wooded area not far from where the Jeep was found.
Carroll was the subject of news reports in 2008 after the The Red & Black discovered she received a salary increase from $87,660 in 2007 to $144,667 in 2008 despite findings from the University's Office of Legal Affairs that she violated the the non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy, according to University documents.
The settlement agreement, release and covenant not to sue, was signed in in early 2008 by Carroll, Terry College Dean Robert T. Sumichrast and University Provost Arnett Mace, and allows Carroll to maintain her upgraded salary until Jan. 1, 2011, when she will retire after 25 years with the University.
"The university finally settled with me, without ever admitting any responsibility, and I retire in 1.5 years ... forced by Arnett Mace to sign a covenant not to sue," Carroll responded in an e-mail Monday.
