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we go inside the investigation with jon krakauer as these alleged victim go through the criminal justice system. >> this special edition of "nightline," crisis on campus" will be right back. >>> this is a special edition of "nightline," crisis on campus. >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. we have all seen the shocking headlines from campuses across the country. tonight, we hear from three brave women who refuse to remain silent. sharing their stories and hoen onerous steps they took to seek justice. we examine the hot button issue of rape on college campuses. this time in the town of missoula montana missoula the college town nestled in the rockies known for two towering institutions the university of montana and grizzly football. >> touchdown, montana. >> there was no other option for school for me. it was i was going to be a montana griz. >> reporter: she was proud of the grizzlies a high-octane division one team whose fan gaim base is known as griz nation. >> all the stadium, people cheering i loved it and it is now ruined for me. >> reporter: ruined because her sophomore yea

. ♪ charlie: jon krakauer is here. he is known for bestsellers.is latest book takes a look at sexual assaults at the university of montana. it is called "missoula." it's the least reported felony in america. i'm pleased to have jon krakauer back at this table. "into thin air," "three cups of deceit." what do they have in common? jon: most of them had to do with people who -- fanatics. people who take things too far to the logical extreme. it harms the person and those around them. charlie: it is a story of people that grow out of obsessions. jon: that is fair. charlie: why doesn't this fit? jon: this is a very different book. i wrote it for personal reasons. i felt compelled to write it, i learned a friend had been raped twice as a teenager. i didn't know that until 10 years later. she turned up at a treatment facility for addiction and sexual assault. she was in treatment. the trauma of the assaults, she had never gotten over it. i was ignorant, i'm ashamed to say, about the seriousness of sexual assault and how prevalent it is. there is not an e

author jon krakauer, best known for "into thin air," takes on this issue in his newest book "missouland the justice system in a college town." he talked with jeff earlier this week at busboys and poets here in the washington area. >> brown: let me start with the title, was missoula a kind of case study for you standing for a large national problem or a very specific place with its own specific problems? >> well it certainly has its own specific problems but i-- it stands for the larger problem. missoula is in many ways, it's a beautiful place, but in many ways it's a typical town in fact the rate of sexual assault in missoula is slightly less than the national average, is not some outlier, this is an american town that has a problem that i think is fairly universal. it's a college town and it exemplifies something we need to look at. >> brown: you dissected a series of cases in missoula. give me an example that helps us understand the kind of problems that you see that are sort of endemic to this system? >> many people don't realize that 85% of rapes are done by an acquaintance of the

we go inside the investigation with jon krakauer as these alleged victim go through the criminal justice

jon krakauer it's so good to see you again. >> thank you. >> why mazzulla? some outlier. i was looking at many cities when i was writing this book and i happened to go to a sentencing hearing in missoula. that's the moment i thought, wow, i could write a book aushlgd this woman. miss missoula is a wonderful place. i'd love to lever there myself but it representatives a huge problem nationwide. >> are these problems that were there and nobody was stepping forward and there were extenuate extenuating circumstances that were attached to them? >> that's right. there's no even deck imrape. it's always been there. women are starting to come forward and gain attention. the department of justice investigating missoula, the police department, the prosecutor's office and the university because of courageous reporting by a local missoula reporter in the local paper, glen florio in "the miss seoulian." >> where is miss sue la today? >> because of the doj investigation, their police department is really good. they i've marriaging them. it still uses privacy lawing. the p