SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago woman convicted of murder in the 1976 slayings of her parents and 13-year-old brother has been denied parole.
Patricia Columbo was 19 when she and her 39-year-old boyfriend killed Columbo’s parents and brother in the family’s Elk Grove Village home.
The Illinois Prisoner Review Board voted 13-2 on Thursday to deny her parole. Columbo’s case has gone in front of the panel more than 18 times.
She’s one of a dwindling number of Illinois inmates that still have a legal right to regular parole hearings under a type of sentencing that was abolished in 1978. In her case the hearings are every three years.
The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald (https://bit.ly/1nAi1DA ) reports those cases once numbered more than 16,000. Today, 220 remain.
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Information from: Daily Herald, https://www.dailyherald.com
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