Nearly Four Decades Later Women Hope Mother's Killer Isn't Paroled A Second Time
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Nearly four decades after their mother was raped, tortured and murdered in cold blood, her children are worried her killer could be released for a second time.
Even after nearly 40 years, Vicki Jernigan remembers the day she and her sister Terri Koeckritz lost their mother.
"Why did you keep torturing her even after she was dead?" Vicki said. "You just kept stabbing her and hurting her."
On Feb. 5, 1976 Maryann Jacobs said goodbye to her three children before school, but never picked them up. A neighbor discovered the 37-year-old's body inside her home, brutally raped, tortured and killed.
"To me it was a real shock to find out that he was the one who did it," Terri said.
The next day, police would arrest Maryann's neighbor Larry Dun, just 19 at the time.
"He used to jog down our street and he'd stop and talk with my brother and talk with me," Terri said.
For the last 28 years, Dun has become a model prisoner as he earned a degree and held down jobs. In 2011, the convicted killer and rapist asked to be set free, and the parole board said yes.
"How do you trust a justice system you know if they're going to let someone like him out?" Terri said.
But Gov. Jerry Brown stepped in and reversed the decision.
But her daughters now fear their mother's killer could be granted parole again at an Oct. 30 hearing.
"We just know that in our hearts it can happen again, and we just don't want that on our conscience and we don't want that to happen to someone else," Vicki said.
According to the sisters and investigators, their mother wasn't Dun's only victim.
