NEW YORK — The family of a handicapped Staten Island woman who was strangled and mutilated by her fiancee wants to make sure the killer stays behind bars.
They're urging the state to deny Chris Patterson's parole request. He appears before the board during the week of Aug. 15.
Patterson is serving 15 years to life in prison for killing Lorraine Miranda on Dec. 5, 1988.
The Staten Island Advance (http://bit.ly/oX3uqQ ) says the "bubbly" victim was a therapist for children who had cerebral palsy.
Prosecutors say the native of Shirley, Long Island, was strangled, then had her neck slashed, and cuts in her stomach resembling a cross. White cotton socks were stuffed into her mouth.
Paterson confessed that he "snapped" while he was high on cocaine and alcohol.
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