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Originally Posted by some webpage, what you want specifics? i kill you now!
PAROLE DENIED FOR DEPUTY?s MURDERER. (Corona)
A Swedish woman serving a possible double-life sentence for the murder of a Lake County sheriff?s deputy was denied parole Tuesday by the California Board of Prison Terms.
Annika Maria Deasy, 47, was returned to the California Institution for Women in Corona, according to Lake County Chief Deputy District Attorney Jon Hopkins, who attended the parole hearing to speak against Deasy?s possible release. Deasy, a one-time San Francisco flower child, will next be eligible for parole in 2005.
Facing execution, she pleaded guilty in 1983 to two first-degree murder charges in connection with the shooting deaths of a retired Stockton restaurateur, Joe Torre, and Lake County sheriff?s deputy Sgt. Richard Hellbush ? the last local law enforcement official to be killed in the line of duty.
Deasy and her boyfriend William Eugene Cox met Hellbush shortly after midnight on May 2, 1981, when the car they were in ? purchased days earlier with a bad check ? broke down on the side of Highway 29 near Manning Flat. Parking in front of them, Hellbush asked the couple for identification. Deasy did not have a driver?s license, but she nonetheless followed her boyfriend?s instructions to look for one in the purse she?d left on the passenger seat. "As Sgt. Hellbush?s attention was focused on her, COX shot him once in the back of the head and three times in the back," said Hopkins. "Then she (Deasy) told COX to drag the body into the ditch so it wouldn?t be visible (from the road), and after he did that and was starting to come back to the car, she told him to get his wallet, too."
Deasy and Cox also took Hellbush?s service revolver. They then fled toward Middletown in his patrol car. COX lost control of the vehicle on Highway 175 after being chased at high speeds by a sheriff?s deputy who had come to investigate Hellbush?s radio silence. A shootout between COX and three law enforcement officials ? the sheriff?s deputy, a reserve, and a highway patrolman ? followed, during which time Deasy helped Cox reload his weapons, according to Hopkins. When Cox came out of Hellbush?s patrol car shooting, "the reserve deputy dropped him with one shot to the shoulder," Hopkins said. Deasy then disobeyed orders and went to her boyfriend, who?d fallen in a field of grass, and began feeling around for his gun. "She said they?d made a suicide pact and that they weren?t going to be taken alive," said Hopkins. "We were going for broke, we weren?t going back to jail," she said in an interview with detectives.
Because Cox had dropped his weapon near the patrol car, the couple was taken into custody without further incident. COX hanged himself in the Lake County jail while awaiting trial. Deasy, who had been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in San Francisco in 1974, said she was a heroin addict at the time of the murders and that she had been supporting her habit by prostituting herself and passing bad checks.(The story continues about Deasy, no more about COX.)
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