John Stote, convicted in murder of Springfield restaurant owner John ‘Jackie’ Regan, gets rare medical parole after contracting COVID in prison
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
Posted Jan 30, 2021
John E. Stote talks with his attorney during a hearing Hampden Superior Court in Springfield in June 1997.The Republican file
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A free man in a hospital bed on a ventilator, after contracting COVID-19 in state prison.
A former used car salesman, cocaine dealer and fraudster, Stote was in 1997 convicted of the brutal murder of John “Jackie” Regan, a restaurant owner who got in a dispute with Stote over the sale of a bar. By his own admission, Stote stabbed Regan many times, then wrapped him in a set of green sheets. He weighted Regan’s body with dumbbells and dumped it in the Connecticut River on his way to a wedding on Cape Cod. Regan remained missing for months until two canoeists found his body in a marshy area near South Windsor.