The student suspected of fatally stabbing San Jose teacher Diane Peterson nearly 50 years ago carried a knife inscribed with “Teacher Dear,” authorities said Monday when announcing they had identified the suspected killer.
A relative of Harry “Nicky” Nickerson told San Jose police earlier this year that Nickerson came to their home and confessed just minutes after the killing on June 16, 1978.
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