Date (2-24-1976) of a murder of a young woman near the University of Nevada, Reno campus-- Michelle Mitchell-- who was the daughter of two English teachers from two different Reno area high schools. The murder was solved in 1979 after one of the conspirators bragged to his cellmate in jail in Louisiana about getting away with this murder. These conspirators had murdered Michelle Mitchell as a ploy to try to collect on some kind of insurance interest they had had on a casino employee they had murdered around the same day of February 24. They wanted to make it appear a Ted Bundy like serial killer was in the Reno-Sparks community and had just picked Michelle Mitchell at random on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. She was a nursing student there.

This is a well known murder to the people of this area because it was in the news so often from February 25, 1976 through at least 1985. Appeals and the like. It was again not solved until 1979.

Mills Lane was one of the prosecutors in this case. He was also the TV judge and the boxing referee for the Tyson/Holyfeld ear biting match. He had in addition been a bridge partner of my parents before 1976.

I was a teacher's pet of the mother of Michelle Mitchell at Earl Wooster High School. I graduated high school in 3 years in 1976.

I went back to Reno, Nevada in the Summer of 1989 having just graduated from the U of MN Law School in May 1989 for a law librarian convention where I was introduced as the cataloger of about 2600 ? computer files on Westlaw. This was a national project to make library users able to see what was WESTLAW from a library catalog. The project failed soon after 1991 because of how quickly WESTLAW changes.