article_snippet: Instead, prosecutors are now investigating attempted murderer Rodney Halbower as a suspect in the case.
article_snippet: Halbower, 66, is serving a 30-year term for attempted murder in Oregon, and has since been charged with murdering two teenage girls in California.
article_snippet: Halbower was sent to prison not long after Mitchell's murder, the the rape of a blackjack dealer just a few blocks from where Michell's body was found .
article_snippet: Rodney Halbower, 66, a native of Muskegon Heights, Michigan, was serving a 30-year sentence for attempted murder in Oregon when he was extradited to San Mateo County in Southern California, and charged in January with murder in the 1976 deaths of Paula Louise Baxter, 17, and Veronica 'Ronnie' Anne Cascio, 18, near Pacifica.
article_snippet: The FBI announced two days before Woods Nevada conviction was vacated that Halbower was a person of interest in the Gypsy Hill murders.
article_snippet: Halbower had been arrested for the rape of a 33-year-old woman in Reno in November 1975.
article_snippet: Halbower was released on bail and barely a month later, the Gypsy Hill murders began in Southern California.
article_snippet: Hicks said Halbower is a suspect in the Nevada murder.