Missing Freshman Was Found Frozen, Hair Peeking Out in the Snow. Police Saw a Suicide, but Parents Saw a Murder Mystery

Megan Trussell walked out of her Colorado dorm one night this February after a fight with her roommate. Something terrible happened next — but no one agrees on what

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  • Megan Trussell went missing from the University of Colorado in Boulder after a fight with her roommate in February, and authorities say she died from amphetamines
  • But her family is pushing for an update into the investigation and insist it was foul play: “The circumstances are very suspicious,” her mom tells PEOPLE. “She’s missing a shoe that has never turned up”
  • Now the teen’s loved ones are remembering a life cut short and questioning how this could have happened

Megan Trussell was about a week into her freshman year at the University of Colorado in Boulder, at the end of August last year, when she texted her dad.

“I just had my first film class, and my assignment is to watch a movie and then comment on it,” wrote the 17-year-old, who had a creative streak and a playful side. She was a bass player who was good at mimicking one of her teachers’ Scottish accent; she enjoyed writing movie reviews. (She’d published a scathing critique of Ben Stiller’s Reality Bites.)

She seemed, in Boulder, to be at home…

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