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I was a junior at Earl Wooster High School when my English teacher's daughter, Michelle, was murdered in a garage a few yards from the University of Nevada, Reno. The cops were looking at my classmates as suspects thanks in part because of Thomas Lee Bean and what he had done to Sonja McCaskie in 1963. He had been a Wooster student when he committed this horrible murder. A policeman even mentioned all the extremely grisly details as a way to explain to us students his viewpoints of the crime. I felt this was an extremely bone-headed approach and was looking for stuff to help my fellow Earl Wooster High students cope with this investigation which was not "solved" until 1979. I had gone into the libraries in the Reno, Nevada area hoping to find something to help us cope with investigation. My English teacher, Barbara Mitchell, was married to a teacher, Edward, at yet another high school in the Reno, Nevada area. You can imagine the community interest in this murder especially with the very heavy coverage from the press. I had been taking classes as a Junior via correspondence from a third high school in Reno, Nevada to get out of high school in three years. Which I did going onto the University of Nevada, Reno where many of the women there were quite worried about there being a murderer on campus. There was a lot of pressure on the cops to solve this murder.

The Mitchell family gave me and another boy a small Memorial Scholarship in Michelle Mitchell's name. I did meet with the Mitchell family after graduating from high school in 1976 to thank them and to hand over a drawing I had done which I had displayed in an art show I did in one wing of the Wooster High School art building. A female art student had a different wing. The drawing was of a woman I saw in a magazine picture that looked like Michelle Mitchell according to the Mitchell family. I also told them that I wanted to be a doctor partly because Michelle had been in nursing school at UNR. I eventually changed majors though because I had trouble with all the memorizing needed for chemistry and calculus.

I am in contact with some of my Earl Wooster HS fellow alumni on Facebook and even encountered a former cell mate of Thomas Lee Bean on Facebook from the Nevada State Prison. Bean is still in prison, of course, and will be until he dies.