MUS-2026-306
Archive card
MUS-2026-306
Homicide
- Incident
- 1991
- Indexed
- Oct 17, 2026, by MuseUnsolved
- Agency
- See coverage below
- Location
- Cambridge MA
Public record. Index entry.
Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.
Summary
What happened, as the record shows.
Mary Joe Frug, 50, a professor at New England Law Boston and feminist legal scholar, was stabbed to death on a street near her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 4, 1991. No arrest has been reported, and the case remains unsolved. Her unfinished draft article, 'A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto,' was published by the Harvard Law Review in March 1992, and the Mary Joe Frug Fund was launched in 1994 to establish an endowed chair at New England School of Law in her memory.
Timeline
What the record establishes.
- April 4, 1991
Frug was murdered on the streets of Cambridge near the home she shared with her husband.
- March 1992
Harvard Law Review published her unfinished draft article, 'A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto.'
- 1994
The Mary Joe Frug Fund was launched to establish an endowed chair at New England School of Law in her memory.
Key people
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50, professor at New England Law Boston and feminist legal scholar. Stabbed to death on a street near her home in Cambridge on April 4, 1991.
Husband of Mary Joe Frug. The couple shared a home in Cambridge.
Children of Mary Joe Frug.
No investigating agency is named in the sources found.
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