bitmap@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (03/10/84)
From this morning's paper (portions)...
Theodore Streleski, who has remained stubbornly unrepentant for
the hammer murder of a Stanford University professor in 1978, was
released from the state medical facility at Vacaville yesterday,
but was returned to custody within three hours when he refused to
abide by the rules of his parole.
The defiant, 47-year-old Streleski walked through the gates of
the state facility at 8:30 a.m. yesterday on parole after serving
5+1/2 years of an eight-year sentence for bludgeoning to death
mathematics Professor Karel deLeeuw.
"I'm unhappy with the conditions of my parole," Streleski told a
throng of reproters and photographers...
He said he was particularly displeased with the requirement that
he live in Orange County during his year of parole. He had wanted
to live in San Francisco.
"For that reason I'm intending to seek a non-violent means of
violating parole," Streleski said during a rambling, 20-minute
exchange with reporters. "I will violate my parole and be sent
back o serve the full time. I want to complete my sentence, then
live where I want."
He told reporters that he would break his parole rules with "a
non-violent act ... an act of omission, like missing an
appointment" with his parole officer. He said his action would be
an "anti-Stanford statement."
Streleski, a former graduate student, continues to hold a grudge
against what he called "the power and arrogance of Stanford."
He again refused to express any remorse over the murder of
deLeeuw, and would not rule out the possibility that he would kill
again.
"I committed a murder to make a statement against Stanford...,"
he said. "I don't wish to undercut my previous statements. I
don't want to say, 'Gee, I'm contrite,' or 'Gee, I'm sorry.' I
don't want to do anything that says I didn't mean it (the murder).
I meant it."
Streleski insisited that he is not insane, and described himself
as a "healthy, well-balanced adult male."bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) (03/13/84)
>> "I committed a murder to make a statement against Stanford...," >> he said. "I don't wish to undercut my previous statements. I >> don't want to say, 'Gee, I'm contrite,' or 'Gee, I'm sorry.' I >> don't want to do anything that says I didn't mean it (the murder). >> I meant it." >> >> Streleski insisited that he is not insane, and described himself >> as a "healthy, well-balanced adult male." I don't intend to condone this action in any way. However, having a dissertation rejected after 19 years of research might tend to make anyone homicidal. -- Binayak Banerjee {allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!bbanerje