RIP Tasha Wrote:
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> That's not the only Madeira related murder...some
> psycho kidnapped, raped, murdered and tied one of
> the students to a
> tree...
https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a4239/r
> emembering-tasha/
John S. Gilreath kidnapped and tortured Natalia "Tasha" Semler on the grounds of the Madeira School in McLean on October 29, 1973. However, he did not rape her, and Tasha died of a combination of shock and exposure.
Following his arrest, Gilreath steadfastly denied killing Tasha, but tying a 14-year-old child to a tree then torturing her before finally abandoning her to succumb to her injuries and the elements counts as murder in my book, and the jury that convicted him in May 1974 saw it the same way.
Gilreath died in prison over 35 years later, in December 2009.