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• Insiders Tell of Boarding School, Past and Present
• Trial Set For Teen In Slaying At Boarding School
• Trial For Teen Opens In Killing of 16-Year-Old
• Youth Gets Life In School Murder
• Man Guilty In Boarding School Slaying
• Suit Says Mountain Park Religious School Uses Barbaric Discipline
• Judge Orders Teen To Be Tried As Adult In Killing At Baptist School
• Murder At Mountain Park
• 3 Being Held in Boarding School Death
• Takeover Plot Cited in Killing at School
• Neighbors Saw Trouble Move Into Teen's Life
• Officer Investigates School Where Teen Was Slain
• No Trespassing
• Minister Ran School Before Baptist Academy
• Two Say Academy Saved Daughters
• Preliminary Hearing Set in Killing at Boarding School
• Several Students Leave Academy
• Schools for Troubled Spring Up Around U.S.
• Students Planned Cult, Says Sheriff
• Letters From the People
• Jury Hears Taped Confession In Boarding School Slaying
• Academy's Supporters Plan Courthouse Rally
• Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Teen

Articles from November 2002 by Matt Franck, SLPD

• Reform Schools Find A Haven Here
• Schools Hail Pastor As Hero Who Saved Teens
• Acting on faith: A look inside reform school in Missouri
• Two Newer Schools Mirror Mountain Park
• By The Handbook
• A Father's Choice
• Bills Would Regulate Teen Reform Schools

A few of the National Articles on the Closing of Mountain Park and Palm Lane

Other News

• Declaration of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing on the Detention of Minor Children
  
• National School Safety Center's Report on School Associated Violent Deaths (Downloadable .pdf file)
  
• Glamour Article with Teana Zeller (Downloadable .pdf file)