Thirty years after their father was brutally murdered , his children are gripped by fear that the man behind the killing — recently granted parole — could strike again.

“The idea of having him being released is terrifying,” one of those children, Jessica Suarez, wrote in a letter to the Massachusetts Parole Board earlier this year. “He said it himself, ‘I snapped. I snapped.’ If someone can snap like that once, what’s to say it won’t happen again?”

Rickey Alford , of Clinton, was granted parole on Nov. 19 after going in front of the parole board for the fifth time on June 16.

Alford beat Julio Suarez, 56, repeatedly with a baseball bat on Feb. 15, 1995. Alford pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

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