“Do you not consider his good behavior and changed ways a sign of turning himself around?” “I don’t think it matters,” Kate said. “Parole would make him a free man. Yes, he’d have tests and restrictions galore, but he’d still be free. He’d have some semblance of a life back. The married couple I found disemboweled on the side of a mountain twenty-five years ago doesn’t get that option. So no…I don’t find Mr. Ellis’s change of personality any reason to grant parole.”

