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Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:25:49 -0800
marlon from private IP, post #12417780
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paroled at age 95
https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2025/01/governor-morris-imprisoned-for-1982-bay-county-murder-paroled-at-95.html
BAY CITY, MI — When she was 52, Dorothy J. Morris orchestrated the murder of
her affluent boyfriend in Bay County, convincing her teenage son and a friend to
drug and smother him.
For more than 40 years since, prison walls have held Morris as she aged into
quite possibly the oldest prisoner in Michigan.
But despite being sentenced to die in prison, Morris is now free, paroled just
months before her 96th birthday.
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:37:07 -0800
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #19862961 at least Italians aren’t such
savages to jail 95 year olds. this woman should have never been in prison this
long. i don’t see how such lengthy sentences help society. they are a drain on
tax payer dollars and the deceased never come back. certain murders are heinous,
don’t get me wrong and deserving of life sentences, but when somebody kills a
lover or somebody they know as she did, 90 percent of the time the person
wasn’t some innocent defenseless victim. the only defenseless victims are
animals, children, and the elderly. of course there are still innocent victims
like laken riley who was killed by a complete stranger. in general though, when
somebody like a lover or somebody known to them, there was lots of bad blood.
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:40:34 -0800
marlon from private IP
Reply #10128775 reminds me of this, a big story
from early 90s. she took down a bunch of dudes w/ her, they're all paroled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Smart
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:09:12 -0800
marlon from private IP
Reply #10805858 https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/02/03/dorothy-jean-morris-governor-parole-macomb-county/78024246007/
After serving over 40 years for masterminding her boyfriend’s murder in Bay
County, 95-year-old Dorothy Jean Morris is now on parole in Macomb County.
On April 28, 1982 — only two days after being released from prison for larceny
and fraud — Morris convinced her then 16-year-old son, Charles Dziuba, and a
22-year-old friend, John Latier, to kill her boyfriend, Rudolph Helmreich. The
victim was drugged with LSD and suffocated with a leather jacket at Morris'
house in Monitor Township, MLive reported.
Dorothy J. Morris
Following a three-week trial in 1983, Morris, nicknamed "Governor," was
convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Morris attempted to overturn her conviction several times over the years,
applying for commutation six times — five of those requests were denied, and
one was returned due to a technicality.
In November 2024, the Michigan Parole Board held a public hearing to review her
latest request and recommended to the governor that her life sentence be
reduced, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC). She was
paroled on Jan. 9.
"The parole board made the release decision based on several factors such as age
and health," said MDOC's public information officer, Jenni Riehle. "Morris is
currently assigned to the Macomb County Parole Office."
Some of the conditions for Morris's parole include placement in a licensed
medical care facility, payment for treatment, not changing her residence or
leaving the state without approval, complying with alcohol and drug testing,
refraining from owning or possessing firearms or weapons, and avoiding
association with anyone incarcerated in MDOC facilities.
Morris' listed offenses on the MDOC site date to 1972. Before the murder of her
boyfriend, she spent a decade in and out of prison for various crimes, including
larceny and embezzlement. While imprisoned for her first felony, she also faced
a charge for attempting to escape.
While serving her life sentence for murder, Morris accumulated 12 misconducts,
most of which were for non-serious offenses and were decades old at the time of
her parole consideration, Riehle told the Free Press.
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