Theodore Bacino petition now available

Add comment April 22nd, 2008

Lately, we’ve covered a couple parole hearings. Robert Henry Lower and Curtis Brownell were both denied parole earlier this year for killing in the 1970s 15-year-old newspaper carrier Joey Didier and 17-year-old Louise Betts, respectively.

Now, Theodore Bacino is approaching a parole hearing. Bacino killed Winnebago County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Mayborne in 1974. At his parole hearing last year, Bacino narrowly got out of prison after the Illinois Prisoner Review Board voted 7-6 to keep him behind bars. Bacino’s parole decision is May 29. You have until May 28 to sign electronic petitions on our Web site either against for for Bacino’s parole.

Next week, we’ll make available an electronic petition regarding Simon Peter Nelson’s parole. Nelson stabbed and bludgeoned his six children to death Jan. 17, 1978. The Nelson children were Jenny, 12; Simon Peter III, 10; Andrew, 8; Matthew, 7; Roseann, 6; and David, 3. The mass murder was among the worst cases of filicide — the murder of one’s children — in the nation’s history.