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Claremont Professor's Past Is a New Puzzle


Claremont McKenna College professor Kerri Dunn at her
home in Redlands on Wednesday. “This is like a very big
deal if they think I’m a suspect,” she said.
(Irfan Khan / LAT) March 17, 2004

By Nora Zamichow, Times Staff Writer

Kerri Dunn taught criminal justice but she was a shoplifter. While earning a PhD in psychology, she was ordered into counseling for stealing.

Dunn, 39, was a hero to many students at Claremont McKenna College, lifting her voice for the oppressed. Then she became the professor who may have betrayed them.

She railed against hate crimes. Now she is suspected of staging one.

Dunn — a Catholic converting to Judaism — prided herself on being passionate and outspoken. But court records and interviews with colleagues, students, friends and police reveal a woman of contradiction and secrets.

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