Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

She was the daughter of my most important teacher Mrs. Barbara Mitchell at Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada. The family gave me a small Memorial Scholarship in her name for the 1976-1977 Academic Year for college. I shared this with the late John Picollo. I never met Michelle though but John Picollo and others were questioned in her murder which took three years to "solve". But, they convicted the wrong person twice and she spent 35 years in a mental ward in Las Vegas because she had made a false confession to get a better room in a Louisiana jail. Rather messy. Cathy Woods is the falsely convicted woman. It turned out that Rodney Halbower had killed her probably. He was/is the San Mateo Slasher/Gypsy Hill killer of the San Francisco, CA area.

Ed Mitchell the father of Michelle and wife of Barbara Mitchell taught at a different Reno, Nevada High School. So many people were affected by this murder of Michelle Mitchell. The student bodies of two of Reno, Nevada's High Schools. And the crime scene was across the street from the University of Nevada, Reno where I got two BAs in Philosophy (December 1980) and History (1981).