Man Who Killed Parents And Younger Brothers In Bergen County In 1976 Is Freed
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Prison records show that Harry De La Roche, who was convicted of killing his family in Montvale over Thanksgiving 1976, was freed from South Woods State Prison in South Jersey. As of June 29, De La Roche is "in a residential community program," according to NJ.com. According to a January 1978 New York Times account of the trial, De la Roche, then 18, was home on leave from the Citadel Academy in Charleston, S.C. He used a gun to kill his father Harry Sr., 44, mother Mary Jane, 50, and...
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