Rodney Halbower, suspected of the 1976 murder of Reno coed Michelle Mitchell, has been found competent to stand trial in Redwood City, California for two of the “Gypsy Hill” murders. Halbower is charged in San Mateo County with murders of two of the young women killed in early 1976 in the Bay Area. He’s suspected in the murders of as many as four others including Mitchell, all in the same time frame. Halbower was linked to the crimes after evidence found on a cigarette butt left in a Reno garage next to Mitchell’s body was tested for DNA. The DNA tests cleared Cathy Woods, a former Reno bar manager, who was twice convicted and served 30 years for Mitchell’s murder. D-N-A testing did not exist in 1976, and Cathy Woods confessed to the crime, that it turns out she didn’t commit.