Ole Miss deaths, druggings have ‘people scared to leave’ dorms as bars, Greek life clamp down: students

OXFORD, Miss. – An Ole Miss student says she was drugged at a bar over the weekend, days before two students were found dead, as bars around Oxford tighten security with fears running rampant through the college town.

Lafayette County Metro Narcotics said in a news release that investigators are looking into the deaths of two college-aged individuals whose bodies were discovered at separate locations.

Authorities have not established a connection between the deaths, though packaged kratom purchased from a retail store was recovered in each investigation.

"We do not have confirmed information indicating that kratom or any other substance was a contributing factor in either death," the agency said.

WHAT IS KRATOM? RISKS OF POPULAR SUBSTANCE REVEALED AFTER COLLEGE STUDENTS' DEATHS Ole Miss student Mary Harvey told Fox News Digital that she went out to the bars on Saturday night to watch the Rebels' football game against Louisiana State University, where she says she was drugged and couldn't recall much of what happened that night.

"Later into that night, around the time when the game ended, I do not remember a single thing.

And I was told by a boy that was there that I fell down," Harvey said.

TWO OLE MISS STUDENTS FOUND DEAD AS PACKAGED KRATOM IS RECOVERED AT TWO SITES: OFFICIALS Harvey said police put her in an Uber where she was taken to her dorm, where other students needed to help her get to her room.

"Later after that, my roommate got in the shower and she said while she was in the shower, I went missing.

And she left the dorm to find me and was searching everywhere, searched every floor.

But on her way back from searching, she found me passed out in the hall of my dorm," Harvey said.

STUDENTS AT TOP PARTY COLLEGE ON EDGE AFTER RAPE, STRANGULATION REPORTED IN CAMPUS HOUSING Harvey says she no longer feels "safe in my dorm building." She said on Facebook that "people are scared to leave their dorm rooms." "I feel like everything is just kind of getting swept under the rug and covered up when it should be addressed like immediately," she said.

Ole Miss student Kenneth Tonos, who works security for several fraternities and sororities on campus, told Fox News Digital that at least three Greek life events have been canceled following the two students' deaths.

Tonos said bars are also taking more precautions, with some tightening their screening to track exactly what people bring in.