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  • Man said to be homesick for prison gets 3½ years (Chicago)

    04/17/2014 5:50:35 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 13 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Apr 17, 2014 8:10 PM EDT | Michael Tarm
    An ex-con who spent most of his adult life behind bars on Thursday got what he said he wanted for robbing a suburban Chicago bank. The 74-year-old gets to go back to the place he called home—prison. Telling Walter Unbehaun he frightened a teller by showing her a revolver tucked in his waistband during the 2013 heist, a federal judge imposed a 3½-year prison sentence, citing a rap sheet that includes crimes from home invasion to kidnapping. “This is not the first time you’ve inspired fear,” Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said, scolding the high-school dropout and part-time bathtub repairman. As...
  • Serial Killer Wants to Come Home (Killer times 10)

    03/23/2006 8:52:34 PM PST · by CAWats · 3 replies · 451+ views
    Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 3/23/2006 | Donna Jones
    IONE — Herbert William Mullin wants to come home to Santa Cruz County. He'd like to live in Boulder Creek and find a wife. He's thought about auditing a psychology course at UC Santa Cruz. He says he would be a hard-working, law-abiding citizen. But Wednesday the California Board of Prison Terms refused to release the convicted serial killer, saying he should stay behind bars for at least another five years, the maximum time allowed between hearings. Mullin was convicted in 1973 of 10 slayings in Santa Cruz County and one in Santa Clara County. The panel's action came after...