The Washington Post, November 5th, 1997
Mindy Somers was a budding journalist and a fun-loving college student who knew the dangers of drinking, having been a member of Students Against Driving Drunk at her Arlington high school. But authorities say that alcohol -- and the question of who served it illegally to the 18-year-old Virginia Tech student -- is being investigated as the contributing cause of the young woman's bizarre death after an evening of Halloween revelry. Somers, a Tech sophomore and 1996 graduate of Wakefield High School, slipped off her bed and out her dormitory room window in the pre-dawn hours Saturday, falling e...
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