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1972: OHS keeps plugging
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The Odessa High School Bronchos kept moving along - away from several losing season and into the second year of posting a winning season with a 6-4 record.
Around town, an Odessa man, Johnny Meadows, confessed to killing four area women, bringing an end to a year of terror in which at least five women, and possibly more, were killed. The break in the case came on Jan. 19 when Sheriff A.M. "Slim" Gabrel visited Meadows in an Aztec, N.M., jail cell. Meadows disclosed the location of the remains of Gloria Sue Green, who had vanished six months before.
Meadows signed confessions to four murders, including Gloria Sue Green, Linda Cougat, Ruth Maynard and Dorothy Smith. He admitted his guilt not only to lawmen but also to an Odessa American reporter before a television camera, prompting Gabrel to dub him, "Johnny the Actor." By the end of the year, Meadows had been convicted and given a life sentence for the murder of Green. He also was indicted for the slayings of Linda Cougat and Ruth Maynard. No charges were filed in the Dorothy Smith case.
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