Two Trumbull County inmates convicted of murder recently had their bid for parole denied, according to the state prison website.

A 66-year-old convicted murderer will stay in prison at least four more years after the Ohio Parole Authority denied parole for him.

Paul Brown is serving a 21-year-to-life sentence for the Dec. 12, 1974, slaying of Cleveland Beasley in Warren.

In January, Brown met with three members of the parole board outside his cell at North Central Correctional Institution in Mansfield to tell them why he deserves freedom. However, a letter from Trumbull County Assitant Prosecutor Christopher Becker helped the board decide that Brown needs to stay in prison.

A prison website states Brown’s is next eligible for a parole hearing in November 2026.

Becker wrote board members a letter dated Dec. 12 stating Brown’s criminal record, including two failures at previous paroles, is reason to keep him where he is. The letter stated simply that Brown “is a high risk to re-offend.”

Cleveland Beasley was found shot to death in a car that was stopped in a Warren intersection.

Brown, 18 at the time of the murder, was at Beasley’s pool hall the night of the shooting. And authorities found out that Brown had taken Beasley’s gun from his coat pocket.

Brown later admitted to detectives he shot Beasley after planning with another man to rob him. Brown, according to Becker’s letter, was also suspected in the 1989 stranglation death of Brown’s cousin, Rebecca Simms.

This homicide occurred while Brown had been on parole from serving time for the Beasley murder, Becker stated.

During the course of the Simms homicide investigation, Becker noted, police discovered that on the same day Simms was murdered, Brown had pawned a ring belonging to Simms.

However, Brown was not convicted of murder, rather he was found guilty of receiving stolen property, Becker noted. That was enough to send him back to prison.

In another parole case, the board refused freedom for Trumbull County inmate Ben Hudach, who was convicted in the 1995 murder of Ann Serafino and the attempted murder of Charles Serafino, during the early morning hours of July 7, 1995, at the Serafino residence in Hubbard. Hudach was one of four people convicted in the murder-for-hire scheme. One of them, Jason Getsy, was executed by the state of Ohio in August 2009 at the age of 33.

According to court documents, co-defendant John Santine offered to pay Hudach, along with co-defendants Getsy and Rick McNulty, $5,000 to kill Charles Serafino.

Hudach, now 46, who is serving his 20-year-to-life sentence at Marion Correctional Institution, will again be eligible for parole in November 2025, according to the prison website.