One of the last people known to have seen 18-year-old University of Colorado Boulder freshman Megan Trussell alive — her roommate, Haili Strickland — is speaking publicly for the first time about the young woman whose death remains a source of dispute in Boulder, Colorado.
“She was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of person,” Strickland says of Trussell. “Her heart and the way that she cared about people was so far beyond anything that I’ve seen.”
Authorities say that late on Feb. 9, Trussell left the on-campus dorm she shared with Strickland after the two argued. Trussell vanished and was found dead six days later near a creek just outside the city, her body covered with snow. Her family contacted authorities after they couldn’t reach her…