The Jane Mixer Murder case - Michigan, 1969

[XanaDUer]

On the advice of a friend, Linette just started reading a book by Maggie Nelson called “Jane: A Murder.” It’s a book about the murder of Nelson’s aunt, a University of Michigan student by the name of Jane Mixer, in 1969.

I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve been stepping over it on our staircase for the past few days now, each time looking down into the haunting, dark eyes of this young woman who was killed almost 40 years ago, here in Ypsilanti.

I’d thought about picking the book up a few times, as it sounds interesting (it’s composed partly of the young woman’s journal entries), but, for whatever reason, I kept going by it without opening it.

http://markmaynard.com/?p=1063

VIDEO:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1071503n

[murielm99]

1. I know that the killer in that case has denied guilt for the last

35 years.

In Jane's case, some crime analysts think it might be true. Her murder does not fit the pattern of the other "co-ed killings" that took place at that time.

I may read that book.

[XanaDUer]

2. John Norman Collins

always denied killing anyone, including Jane Mixer.

what is weird about this case is that the blood of two different people, or the DNA of two different males, was found on her body.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_murders