BREAKING NEWS: No parole for El Segundo cop killer
We just learned that Gerald Mason, who killed two El Segundo police officers in 1957, was denied parole and will not be eligible again to go before the board for the maximum span of 15 years.This was the guy that raped a young woman and robbed her friends on a dark Hawthorne road before shooting the two young officers who tried to pull him over a short while later on Rosecrans Avenue near Sepulveda Boulevard.
After more than four decades on the lam, the law caught up with him living his life in South Carolina in 2003, and he tearfully pleaded guilty to the two murders in Los Angeles Superior Court.
I'll get more details from the officers and, hopefully, others who were at the parole hearing in Sacramento that ran into the night. Look for the full story later at dailybreeze.com and in Saturday's paper.
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may he rot in hell
Don't cry now.. You didn't care about those lives that you ruined so no one is going to care about yours now.
I am a granddaughter of slain Officer Richard Phillips. I am more than estatic to have this errogant monster remain in prison where he belongs. If he lives to be 100 yrs old and is still in prison that would still not be not enough punishment. For what he did to my family. may he rot in hell.
This guy reminds me of one of those Nazi death camp guards. He commits cold-blooded acts of violence and is able to tuck it away and resume some kind of "normal" life for many, many years. How someone could live with this guilt is beyond comprehension. I'm glad he was caught after all these years because who knows when he would have snapped again.
Bet he didn't cry when he was raping that girl and shooting those cops. Who knows what else he had done in his youth. Bet he's crying because he finally got caught. Who cares that he is now an old guy with a life, he committed a horrible crime.
If you detest these crimes and are so sorry to your victims for what you did and beg them for forgiveness, then why did you wait 45 years to say you are sorry ?
this amazing story makes you wonder how many other murderers and rapists are living "normal" lives, never to be revealed for what they did.
It's funny how one little scar could end up being a big piece of one's past. He was brought down not only by his fingerprints, but by the scar from the gunshot wound that he suffered. Forensics, primitive as they were in 1957, also played a key role in identifying Mr. Mason. Good job on all accounts.
Just because he's old he thinks he should be cut a break. He had a break, the last 45 years when he should have been in jail paying for these crimes he was out enjoying life. The officers never enjoyed theirs, so now he can spend his remaining years in a cell. I hope he lives to be 100.
Thank the Lord he will never see the light of day.
I just saw this story on "Cold Case Files" - I thought he got 2 life sentences without the possibility of parole? How the f**k did he get a parole hearing 6 years later?
You know, as I was watching the story, I thought to myself, I hope the surviving families of the murdered police officers sue him civilly, get a judgment against him, and foreclose on his house.
I don't give a crap if this bankrupts his family - heck, if justice had been served back in 1957 he would never have gotten married and he would never have had children - he would have been in prison where he belonged. So, his children can consider themselves lucky that they are alive at all, and that they had a father while they were growing up. Any money the man had should go to the families of his victims.
As one victim's son said, "For 45 years it didn't bother his conscience enough to interrupt his golf game, did it?"
I think he should have gotten the death penalty, inside of spending his life in prison.
I hope as he is in prison, he is thinking of what he did when he was young, and how he ruined a wonderful families life.
I will be praying for both Officer Richard Phillips' and Milton Curtis' family.
This is amazing, good police work. I feel sorry for the two wives and five children who grew up without a Dad in the home. This guy should be on a chain gang daily...he gave no mercy and no mercy is what he deserves.
Rot in prison you old bastard. Boo, hoo, boo, hoo.
This geezer was the typical son of a b.tch that would make you belive he was a role model and really was a piece of shit.
If my father was one of them officers or any of the kids who life you f.cked up was relatives of mine. I would look up your family and put a bomb in there house and blow it up at dinner time when they are all eating. Take picture of me raping the burning carcauses and sh.t in their faces. Then I'd go visit you and show you the pictures.
Thats how I feel about this old piece of sh.t!!!!!
Crazy son of a bitch
Let us not forget the rape victim and the other kids he terrirized that night. What a piece of work this guy is! Lives his good life never caring about any of his victims or their families. Hope he experiences a few things he doesn't like in prison.