Triple-murderer Charles Williams has been denied parole for the 15th time. He was convicted of raping and killing three teenage girls in 1975, shaving their heads and dumping their bodies in the Reedy River.
Williams told the parole board that he did have a job and place to live if he were paroled. "Plan on living in Spartanburg, South Carolina with my mother and my sister and my sister has a job for me in a convenient-type store in Spartanburg," he said.
But family members of the victims, the Greenville Police Department and the local solicitor’s office all showed up at the parole board meeting to ask that he not be released.
"We're begging you, imploring you, please, please, please do not parole him into the community. No community would be safe," said Kathy Adams, sister of 19-year-old victim Rhonda Adams.
The board voted unanimously against parole.
Afterward, Adams said, "It makes it very, very difficult to come down here and each year go to something that feels like a funeral."
Clemilee Smith, mother of 16-year-old victim Kathy Smith, said, "It reopens wounds and then, when you find out that he's rejected, it makes you feel better. Because I don't think we need, we have enough of them kind of people out in the street now, so I don't think we need one more."
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