While taking a walk on November 3, 1981, Michael Jeffries was kidnapped by Anthony Fiorella and three other members of a transient group of criminals. Michael, just 22 years old, was then tied up and beaten for several hours at a small home occupied by the criminals in Colorado Springs.

Despite Michael’s tear-drenched pleas for release, Anthony Fiorella and two accomplices drove Michael deep into the Rocky Mountains. Anthony Fiorella and one accomplice then forced Michael to hike 100 yards up a steep mountainside in the late night. Michael’s cries and screams for his life were ignored. Anthony Fiorella and his accomplice stabbed Michael 65 times. Amazingly, Michael was still breathing, albeit faintly, after the vicious butchering. Enraged by Michael’s heroic will to live, Anthony Fiorella and his accomplice slit Michael’s throat and crushed Michael’s skull with several boot kicks. The two murderers left Michael on the blood-soaked mountainside in hopes animals would devour him. Michael’s massacred body was found several weeks later.

Anthony Fiorella pled guilty to First Degree Murder and agreed to a Life Sentence to avoid the Death Penalty. Fiorella has selfishly and brutally subjected Michael’s beloved family, to parole hearings in 2001, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2018 and now 2020. May 10th, 2020, Mother's Day, would have been Michael’s 61st birthday. Instead of celebrating with her son, Michael's mother mourned, with this 6th parole hearing looming, victimizing her once again.

I STRONGLY OPPOSE PAROLE for Anthony Fiorella. Justice and fairness demand he serves the full Life Sentence he agreed to serve in his plea deal to avoid the Death Penalty for his heinous, vicious and merciless crimes against Michael Jeffries and the State of Colorado. I heartily urge you to ensure Justice is served. I earnestly beseech you to deny parole to Anthony Fiorella for all good citizens in the State of Colorado and America.

Thank you very much for considering my deeply felt thoughts and pleas on this serious matter.