Jean Gillies Rapist/Murderer set to be released

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Jean Elizabeth Gillies (above 1986)
Victim's family: Release coming soon for killer
2/25/2009
Daily Journal


OXFORD - Douglas Hodgkin was convicted of capital murder after University of Mississippi graduate student Jean Elizabeth Gillies was bound, beaten, raped, sodomized, bound and strangled in her Oxford apartment in 1986.

According to his victim's family, Hodgkin soon will be walking free.

Despite a sentence of life in prison, Hodgkin was eligible for parole after only 10 years in prison. Gillies' brother, retired U.S. Army Col. Paul Herbert, said his family got unofficial word from both the State Parole Board office and a Department of Corrections victim advocate that Hodgkin was approved for parole after a Jan. 14 parole hearing.

"We are appalled and disgusted," Herbert said. "There is no way a person this dangerous should be allowed among the public."

Parole Board members Shannon Warnock and Betty Lou Jones did not return calls to the Daily Journal on Tuesday.

Retired Oxford Police Chief Steve Bramlett, then a police investigator, called Gillies' murder "the most heinous crime" he has ever seen and predicts Hodgkin will kill again.

Hours of torture and multiple sexual assaults elevated Gillies' killing to capital murder, but Hodgkin will not have to register as a sex offender. House Bill 893, if passed, would remedy that legal gap but could not take effect before July 1.


http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=286418&pub=1&div=News

[nicky]

I don't see him living long outside bars. If she has any family or friends they may take matters into their own hands. jmo The guards should have let everyone know what he was in for, then problem solved. jmo

[Bayou Lass]

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!:shock:

[nicky]

I say everyone in the surrounding areas should contact their local police force and see if it is legal to post this monsters picture all around. jmo

[awakening2lite]

In addition to shooting down the email-rumor Lotus reported (tip for future reference: When two minutes with the Bureau of Prisons inmate locator (http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.jsp) suggests Montgomery, a little caution is in order), this morning’s Tupelo Journal has the disturbing unofficial news (http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=286418&pub=1&div=News) that murderer Douglas Hodgkin has been granted parole by the state parole board after a January 14th hearing.


I attended a good bit of the Hodgkin trial, and (with a high threshold on reasonable doubt) came away convinced he’d been proved guilty of a truly terrible murder. Under the law at the time, he was eligible for parole in ten years (the conviction was in 1986) and has been coming before the parole board as frequently as his lawyers could persuade them to give him a hearing ever since. The family of victim Jean Elizabeth Gillies and members of the Oxford Police Department have appeared at each hearing to oppose parole. As Errol Castens reports in the DJ article, “Retired Oxford Police Chief Steve Bramlett, then a police investigator, called Gillies’ murder ‘the most heinous crime’ he has ever seen and predicts Hodgkin will kill again.’” Without endorsing Chief Bramlett’s prediction, I share his alarm.




http://www.folo.us/2009/02/25/donald-hodgkin-to-be-paroled/

[j2mirish]

unbelievable-
How does our justice system allow this? :mad:

[grammybears]

I believe this man will kill again. Ten years in a life sentence is not nearly enough for what he did to Jean. I would be livid if I was her family. I am not sure how the justice system can allow this but it really worries me.

jmoo

[awakening2lite]

If he was convicted in 1986 that would mean he spent 22 years behind bars. I think they are referring to the a life sentence (at the time he was convicted) made him eligible for parole after serving 10 years of the life sentence. That law has since been changed.

The fact he is paroled and it appears he does not need to register as a sex offender, IMO, puts the public in more danger than if they required him to register and his whereabouts were keep on record. I hope his parole officers are able to keep tabs on him and that the conditions of his parole are for years and years to come.

It's my opinion, and I join the voices of others, that it is likely he will commit another horrible crime. I base that on the horror of this victim and the time he took with her. There are accounts of others who have done the same, been let out, only to torture and murder again.

IMO

[nanabillie]

This is just unbelievable! What was the parole board thinking? Let him go so someone can have his bed, although he will probably kill again and be back?
The victims family is being victimized again by the system. I'm sure they are afraid of him. I hope no one does anything that will cause them to have to go to prison.