A Nevada woman will go free from future prosecution after spending more than 30 years in prison for a 1976 stabbing at the University of Nevada, reports the Associated Press. Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks told reporters on Friday that there will be no retrial of Cathy Woods in the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Michelle Mitchell. Officials now believe the real culprit is a man also charged in a long-unsolved string of killings in California. Last year, a judge ordered a new trial for Woods after DNA found on a cigarette near Mitchell's body pointed instead to Rodney Halbower, who has...
- 3/7/2015
- by Adam Carlson, @acarlson91
- PEOPLE.com
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