![]() Despite confessing to the horrific slaying and agreeing to plead guilty to second degree murder, he walked free. Mitchell was just 18 when he was charged with the rape and murder of an 83-year-old woman. 'Nobody ever been killed up there until he come back,' he told the newspaper. Mugshot: An undated mugshot shows Mitchell, who was charged at age 18 with raping and killing an 86-year-old woman Now I look back I think, 'God, what was his intentions?''Īnother resident, Wayne Mitchell, who isn't related to the accused, called him a 'worthless piece of s***.' We was (sic) kids and we thought it may be a joke. 'At the time, we didn't think nothing of it,' she said. The woman recalled a time when a young Mitchell chased her and other children around the schoolyard with an ax. He would actually hang them from trees and stuff. 'I guess he figured that was a thrill and so he figured when he got 18 why not try something bigger. 'When he was younger he actually killed dogs and cats,' she said. He was just a nasty thing.'Ī 46-year-old resident, who didn't want to be named, told the newspaper Mitchell was 'evil.' 'I'm scared to death of him,' Rene Bolen, a former classmate of Mitchell's, said. Nearly everyone in the 300-person community has a frightening story about the alleged rapist, according to the Daily News. Mitchell grew up 'the black sheep' in a family of 11 brothers and two sisters in the impoverished West Virginia community of Jenkinjones.īut it wasn't only his siblings who Mitchell regularly terrorised with his violent outbursts. 'I hollered Johnny (and) he stopped,' she said. Mitchell had pleaded guilty to the charges which had prevented his victim from having to testify about her ordeal, but she insisted on speaking to him in court
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