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.
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.