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Edgar Bowser, man who killed Shrewsbury Police Officer James Lonchiadis in 1975, dies in prison hospital 3 months after being granted medical parole
Updated May 10, 2021;
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Edgar Bowser, the man who killed Shrewsbury Police Officer James Lonchiadis nearly 50 years ago, died in a prison hospital last week, roughly three months after he was granted medical parole by the state.
The 61-year-old man had metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a rare throat cancer, and his condition took a turn for the worse when he contracted coronavirus late last year, according to his attorney, Rebecca Rose.
“His lungs never recovered from COVID,” she said.
He died last Friday night in a correctional unit at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, according to the Somerville-based attorney. The facility provides health care to inmates from more than two dozen state and county prison facilities across Massachusetts.
April 14, 2021Reprints The cover of the summary report of a parole review hearing for Joseph Messere, known as Cement Head, provided by his attorney, David Apfel.
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During his 39 years in prison, the closest Joseph Messere ever came to walking free was when he was intubated, unconscious, and dying of Covid-19. The opportunity pinged onto his attorney’s phone just before Christmas, in a series of voicemails from the Massachusetts Parole Board. “This is Michelle Wetherbee, chief of the transitional services unit,” said one, from 12:31 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2020. She sounded like she was in a rush, swallowing syllables, garbling Messere’s name. But one thing she made very clear was that this couldn’t wait. “Can you please call me back” she gave her number “as soon as possible? We’d really like … your client released as soon as possible.” It was the fourth message her office had left in six days. A little over an hour lat
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Murderer John Stote back behind bars after temporary medical parole; ‘I feel like finally things are fair again,’ victim’s daughter says
Updated Apr 13, 9:14 PM;
Posted Apr 13, 7:05 PM
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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SPRINGFIELD With the man who murdered her father nearly 30 years ago back behind bars, the world feels right again.
John Stote, convicted in 1997 in the brutal stabbing death of Springfield bar owner John “Jackie” Regan three years earlier, received a rare medical parole in late January from the commissioner of the state Department of Corrections. Stote, 61, had contracted COVID-19 and was on a ventilator.