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Friday, January 18, 2013

Vereb Responds to Rafael Robb's Release from Prison

State Representative Mike Vereb sent a letter to the PA Board of Probation and Parole objecting to the release of Robb, who admitted killing his wife, Ellen Robb, in 2007.

  State Representative Mike Vereb (R-150) sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole in response to its decision to parole Rafael Robb, who pleaded guilty to the 2007 murder of his wife, Ellen Robb, at the end of January. “There is no reason this professional manipulator and convicted wife and mother killer should serve one day less than the maximum sentence handed down,” Vereb wrote in the letter.  “There is a reason Pennsylvania offers legislation with minimum and maximum sentencing.  If this wife and mother killer is not the epitome of a max sentence, then who is?” Robb plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal negotiated between his attorney and county prosecutors. Robb was sentenced to the …

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Brittany Tressler

3:06 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013

I added the name of Robb's wife to clarify. Thanks for bringing that up.   more ›

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