Audrey Seiler

UW student Audrey Seiler was reported missing in March 2004. She was seen on a surveillance camera leaving her apartment without her coat and purse, leaving her apartment door open, suggesting she expected to return quickly. Police initially investigated her disappearance as an abduction, and the national media swooped in on Madison as the search for Audrey raged. She was found four days later in the marsh near the Alliant Center, about two miles away from campus, after an extensive search that cost the Madison Police Department about $100,000.

At first, she told police she had been kidnapped from her room at knifepoint. She later recanted and said she was depressed. Her story was later fodder for a Broom Street Theater play, "Audrey Seiler, Where Are You?" Court TV also shot a re-enactment of the incident.

Sewage

What to do with the sewage? Put in the lakes? In the streets? Ignore it? It was a question that vexed Madisonians just prior to the turn of the 20th century.