Donna Hylton was in prison and she has no problem telling you how bad prison life is. One student said she made it sound like she was only in prison for being black. One student had the audacity to ask her why she had been in prison in the first place. Hylton refused to answer and another panel member admonished the student for embarrassing Hylton.
So, what was she in prison for 27 years for? She and three men and three other women kidnapped a real estate broker to hold him for ransom.
In 1985, Hylton along with three men and three other women, kidnapped 62-year-old real-estate broker Thomas Vigliarolo and held him for ransom before eventually killing him. Hylton and her comrades starved, burned and tortured Vigliarolo. They forcibly sodomized him with a 3-foot steel pole.
As noted in a 1995 Psychology Today article, when asked about forcibly sodomizing the victim with the steel pole, one of Hylton’s accomplices replied: “He was a homo anyway.”
“They’d squeezed the victim’s testicles with a pair of pliers, beat him, burned him,” New York City detective William Spurling told Psychology Today. “I couldn’t believe this girl who was so intelligent and nice-looking could be so unemotional about what she was telling me she and her friends had done.”
Hylton reportedly delivered a ransom note to one of Vigliarolo’s friends asking for more than $400,000, even though the sexually-tortured man was already dead by that point. Hylton’s delivery of the ransom note led to her arrest.
I guess students at a $56,000 a year university need to hear from convicted of murder for diversity sake but I am afraid that they now need to include drug dealers and rapists no?