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Update: PAROLE DENIED. The parole of inmate Renee Patterson has been denied. Patterson will not have another hearing until June, 2015. Thank you to everyone who submitted a petition to block this parole.

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Renee Patterson
Inmate Name:
Renee Patterson
Inmate Number:
W025834
Victim(s):
Joshua Marsh (Age 2)
Offenses:
Aggravated Murder
Minimum/ Maximun Sentence:
20 years - Life

Next Parole Hearing:
June 2015


Case Facts:

On April 10, 1990 Renee Patterson went into her two-year-old son Joshua Marsh’s room armed with a large kitchen knife. Patterson walked over to Joshua’s crib and slit Joshua’s throat. Patterson’s husband, who had bought cocaine for her prior to the murder, arrived home and found Patterson in the bathtub with a large knife and a cut on her wrist. She told him she had killed Joshua. Patterson’s husband then called police. When they arrived at the home police found Joshua dead in his crib with blood all around him. Patterson was arrested and confessed to police she killed her son. According to Patterson she was planning on committing suicide and that is why she killed Joshua. Prior to Joshua’s death he had spent time in the custody of Cuyahoga County Children’s Services due to issues within the home.

During Patterson’s trial the coroner testified that Joshua's trachea, esophagus, carotid arteries and muscles in his neck were cut. The coroner also stated there were several marks, presumably from a knife blade, on the boy's cervical spine. According to the coroner a wound that severe likely came from a sawing action. The coroner stated Joshua suffered for two or three minutes before he died from loss of blood. A jury found Patterson guilty of aggravated murder. She was sentenced to life in prison.

Based on the heinous and brutal nature of her crime, and the fact Patterson brutally killed her defenseless, innocent, two-year-old son, we believe to further the interests of justice and to protect the community that Renee Patterson should remain in prison until the day she dies.



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