SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A California parole board denied granting freedom this week for a person who helped a serial killer homicide a lady in Burlingame 4 many years in the past.
Inmate Michael Anthony Francis appeared together with his lawyer at a parole listening to held at Excessive Desert State Jail in Susanville, Calif. Francis has served 39 years in state jail for first-degree homicide. On Wednesday, the parole board denied the inmate’s request to be launched.
Francis was associates with Anthony Sully, a former Millbrae police officer-turned serial killer, within the early Nineteen Eighties.
Sully beat, raped, and killed girls inside his Burlingame warehouse. His victims included: Barbara Searcy, 22; Gloria Jean Fravel, 24, Brendan Oakden, 19; Michael Thomas, 24, and Phyllis Melendez, 20.
Francis stabbed a younger girl, 24-year-old Kathryn “Kathy” Barrett, contained in the warehouse on August 18, 1983. The sufferer was nonetheless respiration after Francis her stabbed a number of occasions within the chest, in line with court docket paperwork.
“Disgusted with Francis’ inability to kill Barrett … (Sully) hit Barrett in the mouth with a sledgehammer. He could hear her bones cracking,” court docket paperwork state.
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Francis later dumped Barrett’s bare physique in a South San Francisco road. He was convicted of murdering Barrett following a 1986 trial prosecuted by San Mateo County’s present district lawyer, Steve Wagstaffe.
Sully died from pure causes in San Quentin jail in 2023 on the age of 79.
Francis, now 61 years outdated, will stay locked in Excessive Desert State Jail till his subsequent parole listening to in 2028.
