The petition
December 5th, 2007 at 11:38pm Anna Derocher
At this writing, nearly 2,100 people have signed electronic petitions on rrstar.com requesting that Robert Henry Lower remain in prison for murdering Joey Didier in 1975. Several hundred of you have faxed petitions to the Register Star. The response is huge considering it’s only been three days since we published a story in our online and print editions. The petitions — we offer you a choice to reject or support his parole — here.
Aaron Chambers, our Springfield bureau chief, went over to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board and scanned several documents, including Lower’s confession. (You can read a post about this on our Editorial Board’s blog, A Seat at the Table.) I can’t even begin to tell you what’s in that letter. Most of it is so graphic, I can’t share it here. Joey was delivering our newspaper when he was abducted. It’s 32 years later, and it’s one of our region’s most horrendous crimes. I can write that with certainty based on the response we’ve gotten so far from those of you who believe Lower should not be paroled.
Entry Filed under: Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Parole, Online petitions, Robert Henry Lower, Joey Didier
2 Comments Add your own
1. thedudeabides | December 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
So, um, where are the forums?
No warning before they got deleted? No nothing?
2. Anna Voelker | December 10th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Dude,
We didn’t know they would go down. We’ve been working on it. Should have posted something to the blog and rrstar.com as soon as I knew. I just did that.
Anna
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