IONE – One of two men convicted of the 1975 murder of a Capitola waitress was denied parole this week, the District Attoreny’s Office reported.
Vincent Regan and his accomplice, Orrin “Buzz” Carr, followed 27-year-old Joyce Coulter home, then broke into her house and raped, strangled, stabbed and killed her in April 1975.
The two men were convicted of the crimes in December of that year and sentenced to death, but those sentences were commuted when the death penalty was rescinded. Carr was last denied parole in August.
At the parole hearing this week, Regan asked to be released because he had a substance abuse problem and was under the influence of drugs and alcohol when the crime was committed. He also said he has been a model prisoner for 33 years and paid his debt to society.
However, prosecutor David Sherman stated that Regan has been in at least one prison yard fight because he just “snapped” when another inmate made a comment. Sherman also presented evidence about Regan’s actions the night Coulter was killed.
Regan, now 58, is being held in Mule Creek State Prison. He has been denied parole seven times and will not be eligible again for release until 2014.
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Mike // May 24, 2009 at 3:50 am
We need laws enforced in cases like this, but I am sick of constant special interests changing times spent behind bars, why not death?
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