Parole Granted to Man Who Fatally Shot His Family in 1976 While Home on College Break
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man convicted of killing his parents and two younger brothers in 1976 when he came home from college for Thanksgiving break has been paroled. Harry De La Roche, 64, was granted parole on May 17, according to state corrections officials. He was then released from South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton to a residential community program on June 29. De La Roche was an 18-year-old freshman at the Citadel Military Academy in South Carolina when he returned home to Montvale for Thanksgiving and...
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