. >> reporter: the news spreads like wildfire, and piques the interest of fellow students like eric bosco a career at a big city newspaper. >> there was an e-mail sent out to the campus community telling us that a student had died in his off-campus apartment. but there was no information about how exactly he had died. i had been asking around and began to hear rumors. >> this story published -- >> reporter: eric is taking a class in investigative journalism with professor steve fox. eric and another classmate make the curious case of logan's death their class project. so you started sniffing around. how long did it take to start getting information? >> well, i went down to umass police and requested all documents relevant to his name. >> reporter: did they just hand them over? >> after a few days. you know, they made the copies and they turned everything over, yeah. >> reporter: they are public documents. but it's only this enterprising young reporter who asks to see them. easy to obtain, and impossible to forget. were you shocked by anything that you read in there? >> i was. >> reporter: