WARREN — The 72-year-old Trumbull County convicted killer of her husband and son has been denied parole.

Judith Morris Delgros will remain in prison for at least eight more years, as the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction website states Delgros’ next parole hearing is in December 2030.

Delgros faced members of the parole board outside her cell in December at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. They decided to keep the killer in place.

Mary Jo Hoso, of the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office Victim /Witness support office, said she was pleased with the decision. Hoso’s boss, Prosecutor Dennis Watkins, had written a stinging letter opposing Delgros’ parole.

The woman is serving two life prison terms for the 1978 murder of her husband and 5-year-old son. Delgros was convicted of the murder, some 15 years after the crime.

A persistent sheriff’s office investigator found holes in the case of a fatal trailer fire in Vernon Township that originally was ruled accidental.

Watkins helped prosecute the woman during a high-profile murder trial at the Trumbull County courthouse where the murder victim’s remains were displayed in front of a jury.

Evidence showed Delgros stabbed to death her husband, Donald Morris, 41, and then set the fire by pouring gasoline to cover up her crime, allowing 5-year-old Christopher Styles, Delgros’ son, to die.

Watkins also credited the testimony of Delgros’ other son, Edward Bridge, who was interviewed by sheriff’s Lt. Dan D’Annunzio in a Pennsylvania prison, saying he saw his mother stab his stepfather four to five times before the fire started.

The stabbing followed a domestic violence episode between the couple, Bridge told the investigator.

Bridge, who was 9 at the time of the fatal fire, was in prison because of a rape charge as an adult.

A few weeks prior to the prison interview, D’Annunzio had come to Watkins asking him to reopen the cold case.

As a boy, Bridge was carried out of the blaze by a neighbor, while Delgros was fully dressed and did not make an effort to save anyone inside, Watkins said.

In his letter urging the parole board to deny freedom for Delgros, Watkins depicts the woman as a taker.

“(Delgros) takes too much and asks too much. The inmate should count her lucky stars that she was not given the death penalty,” Watkins wrote. “A punishment which would have been more merciful in comparison to the punishment she inflicted on her husband and little son.”

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