[Megamel29]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ole-month.html

A 54-year-old inmate in prison since he was a teenager for being an accomplice to one of the most disturbing murders in Michigan history has been freed from his life sentence for parole.
Timothy Spytma will be released July 18 and subject to a four-year parole. His accomplice Michael Saxton was released on parole in 1986.
The two men were convicted in the vicious beating, rape and murder of 42-year-old neighbor Phyllis Doctor on December 16, 1974. Both were high on drugs during the frenzied attack and ransacking of her home.

Both broke into the woman’s home at Spytma’s urging, according to the Kalmazoo Gazette. They originally planned only to rob her, but things took a violent turn when she came home early.
Spytma grabbed and hit doctor as many as five times on the back of her head with the handle of a closed pocket knife until she was knocked out, authorities said.
The duo then blindfolded the unconscious woman and brought her to a bedroom where Saxton raped her before smashing her skull with a baseball bat and a bottle, according to the prosecutor.
Both men wrote on her nude body and Spytma slashed her wrists with that same pocket knife before they pilfered televisions, rifles, a stereo and other valuables into her car and sped off, officials said.
Her body was discovered by her then-17-year-old son after he came home from school, according to the paper.

An accident in downtown Muskegon brought them down in a hurry.
They were tried as adults and convicted of first-degree murder and burglary, which resulted in a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the chance of parole in Michigan.
A 1982 court decision ruled that burglary could only be committed at night, and led to their burglary charges being overturned, according to he paper. This led to their first-degree murder convictions being reduced to second-degree murder.
Saxton’s judge handed him a 20 to 40-year prison sentence and he was paroled in 1986 after only 12 years behind bars on ‘good time credit,’ according to the site.

Spytma’s judge gave him a life sentence with the possibility of parole, and it had been denied every five years since 1988 – until now.
The first actual parole hearing was held May 1, and the parole board agreed to let Spytma out later this year.
The judge called it ‘among the most difficult decisions I have ever been asked to make as a circuit judge,’ but cited Spytma’s contrition and good prison record as reasons to free him, according to the paper.
Spytma will be out from behind bars in less than two weeks.

photo 1 : Timothy Spytma

photo 2: Accomplices: Spytma, left foreground, and co-defendant Michael L. Saxton in custody after the December 16, 1974, murder of Phyllis Doctor, 42, in her Laketon Township home. Saxton was released 28 years ago

photo 3: This is Spytma's original mug shot after he was arrested for the brutal murder

[K9Grip]

I hope the then 17 yr old son finds him and gets real justice. That was a brutal rape and murder, regardless of the burglary.

[Megamel29]

Originally Posted by K9Grip ↗

I hope the then 17 yr old son finds him and gets real justice. That was a brutal rape and murder, regardless of the burglary.

Right? I think it's ridiculous the law there says burglary can only happen at night. What is it called during the day? And even without the burglary, like you said, they still murdered that woman.

[DEWBZ]

Wait the guy who gave her the death blow has been released over twenty yrs ago?

[Kelseecat65]

Originally Posted by Gaydolf Shitler ↗

Wait the guy who gave her the death blow has been released over twenty yrs ago?

he was paroled in 1986 after only 12 years behind bars on ‘good time credit,’

[DEWBZ]

With that math, he could be released, kill another person and STILL get out before his co defendent. Again

[30564U]

This is typical lawyer and politician bullshit. What kind of a retard or group of retards came up with the theory that a burglary can only be committed at night? That's utterly foolish. A burglary is virtually universally defined as the entry into any dwelling (yes...even a car, shed, car port, tent, outhouse, etc.) with the intent to commit a crime. As an example that I use in my classes, if you're married and decide to marry someone else knowingly without divorcing/annulling/legally terminating the prior marriage, you would be guilty of the crimes of bigamy and burglary. Because you entered the church, a dwelling, with the intent of committing the crime of bigamy. Get it? It's legally insane to say that a burglary can only be committed at night. That makes no sense. Typical politically correct bullshit.

[Pyramid_Head]

You gotta love this justice system.

[petedeamon]

Sad this oxygen thief is still able to have life...It's bullshit.

[clndstn46]

Once scum, always scum if u ask me
I'm sure people can change...but I'm pretty sure they should both still be in jail lol