After nearly 44 years and seven parole board hearings starting in 1996, a Massachusetts nurse’s family continues waiting for her killer to take accountability — reliving the pain in hopes to hear remorse.

“... they wanted to hear remorse from you. They wanted to hear an acknowledgement that you did something wrong. They had been to six hearings, and they really wanted to hear that,” one of the parole board members told Matthew Farley during a hearing on April 9. “Yes, a lot has been wrong for you. There is no question about that, but you have also had some behaviors which have caused people pain.”

But once again, Farley gave them nothing — and on Monday, the parole board denied his request for release, citing his high risk to reoffend, more than 50 disciplinary reports and his defiance

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