Retired Vermont university dean found shot to death on trail near campus. Now police are looking for her killer Updated: 11:17 AM EDT Oct 9, 2023
Paradise Afshar and Jennifer Henderson, CNN
CNN via WTAECASTLETON, Vt. — A retired university dean was found shot in the head on a hiking trail near the Vermont State University Castleton Campus where she'd worked, and authorities are searching for whoever killed the beloved educator.
Honoree Fleming, a retired dean of education at the university and wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Powers, is believed to have entered the trail near campus around 4 p.m. Thursday and was found dead less than an hour later, Vermont State Police said. ...
"Scores of students benefited from Dr. Fleming's teachings and research. Before she joined Castleton, she was also a faculty member at Trinity College, Middlebury College, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Honoree lived in Castleton with her husband, Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author," the school said.
Powers was co-author of the book "Flags of Our Fathers," a New York Times best seller about the men involved in the famous flag-raising during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. He also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973. ...
