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Originally Posted by LyndaS
Tal,
I just want to thank you for being the kind, thoughtful person who you are. You have dedicated your life to victims rights and again, I thank you!
Lynda
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Thanks. Lots of sacrifices made by me and my family to fight for the access to practical information for survivors/victims of crimes. Things have improved a lot in the 25.5 years I have been doing this after I discovered the niche while trying to help my fellow Earl Wooster High School students cope with the 2-24-1976 murder of Michelle Mitchell. A couple of lesbians were caught up in the fervor to solve the crime and it eventually turned out the wrong person was convicted-- twice-- and just recently released in 2015. She made a false confession and is a paranoid schizophrenic. The cases are complicated though and the Michelle Mitchell murder was one of the worst crimes in Northern Nevada in the 20th Century according to Northern Nevadan law enforcement.
Woods v. State :: 1985 :: Supreme Court of Nevada Decisions :: Nevada Case Law :: Nevada Law :: U.S. Law :: Justia
I only started fighting for better access to practical information after I had earned four degrees to give me some credibility in this struggle. But, I also had those real life experiences with the Michelle Mitchell murder investigation which started right around February 24, 1976.
I have had a lot of help from the gay/lesbian community with this struggle but I am basing this on intuition and hope that the people I have contacted over the past 25.5 years have seen the importance of what I had been trying to do.
I cannot even imagine all the pain and suffering that so many families in the Orlando area are going through tonight because of one man's hatred for gays/lesbians based on some perverted ideology.
I did see the grief of the Michelle Mitchell family as well as that of many of her English students at Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada. 2-24 is also my birthday so you can imagine what that feels like.
It seems I have been involved with the victims' rights movement in some way since walking into the classroom at Earl Wooster High School and eventually learning that Michelle had been murdered the night before and that some of my classmates were being questioned about it by the police.