Nearly 33 years after a Burlingame man was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing his former fiancée, he was found suitable by a parole board during his sixth parole hearing Thursday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Following a four-hour hearing, the board’s decision with regard to Craig Anderson’s parole is expected to go through administrative review and arrive on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk in the coming months, said District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
Having prosecuted the case, Wagstaffe attended the hearing and joined retired police commander Tom Marriscolo, who was an investigating detective with the Burlingame Police Department when the case was tried, and three of victim Denise Redlick’s family members in opposing Anderson’s suitability for parole.
On Nov. 11, 1985, Anderson believed to have killed Redlick for ending their engagement and hid her body in the Santa Clara County hills, where it was found by a hiker about a year after a jury found him guilty of murder. Wagstaffe said Anderson is the first person in San Mateo County convicted of murder without a body.
At Anderson’s first parole hearing, he admitted he killed Redlick and disposed of her body but claimed it was an accident, At subsequent hearings, he allegedly admitted he pushed her and threw her into a van where she hit her head and died and later admitted he strangled her, according to prosecutors.
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