Nearly half a century after a teacher was found stabbed to death in the hallway of a California high school, a teenager who had a knife inscribed with “Teacher Dear” has been named as the killer.
Diane Peterson, a 25-year-old teacher at Branham High School in San Jose, was stabbed in the chest by Harry “Nicky” Nickerson, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office and the San Jose Police Department said on Monday.
The fatal stabbing happened on June 16, 1978, just as school had ended for summer break and teachers were clearing out their classrooms…