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Cathy Woods
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Woods confessed to killing Mitchell while being treated as a
mental patient at the Louisiana State
University Medical Center. Her
public defender believes she only confessed in order to be
deemed
dangerous, and get a single bedroom at the mental hospital.
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Cathy Woods
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Cathy Woods September 2014.
(Photo: Andy Barron/RGJ.com)
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Scene: Above, the house in Reno where Michell's body was found in
1976. The 19-year-old's throat was
slashed shortly after her car
broke down near the University of Nevada campus.
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Halbower was sent to prison not long after Mitchell's murder, the
the rape of a blackjack dealer just a few
blocks from where the
nursing student's body was found.
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Rodney L Halbower, an inmate in an Oregon penitentiary, recently
submitted DNA evidence
which now connects him to a cigarette butt
found on Mitchell's dead body.
The victim
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Michelle Mitchell, 19.
Cathy Woods biography