By Bee Staff
Bee researcher Linda Beymer contributed to this report
A woman sentenced to life for the Rocklin murder of a man in 1994 who she suspected of being a child molester is scheduled for a parole hearing in early April.
Here is the list of Sacramento area convicts serving life sentences who are due hearings in the next few weeks:
-April 5, Charles Edwin Cox, 54, California Men's Colony.
On April 25, 1990, a Sacramento judge sentenced Cox to 15 years to life for the murder of his 33-year-old half-brother, Robert Craig Mason in 1986. He received an additional two years for using a firearm.
Cox twice was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial and committed to Atascadero State Hospital. Cox then pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Police said that an ongoing argument between the two men in a North Sacramento residence peaked when Cox accused Mason of stealing a gun from him. Cox then shot Mason several times and fled, police said.
-April 6, Timothy Martin, 50, California Men's Colony.
Martin was convicted of kidnapping and false imprisonment in El Dorado County.
No other details on his crime were available.
-April 6, Erika Aline Schomberg, 39, Valley State Prison for Women.
Schomberg was one of two Sacramento women were sentenced to prison on April 4, 1994, for setting up the shotgun slaying of a Rocklin man they suspected of molesting his daughter.
Trina Marie Werly, the victim's former girlfriend and mother of his child, received a term of 12 years for arranging the homicide, which she insisted was a last-resort act to salvage her daughter's innocence.
Werly has since been paroled.
A Placer Superior Court judge sentenced Schomberg to 15 years to life in prison for acting as the go-between who introduced Werly to the triggerman, Aaron Shaun Harper, 25. Harper was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
According to probation reports, Werly's allegations of child sexual abuse against Gregory Kittle probably were unfounded. At Werly's trial, witnesses testified that Kittle was a devoted father.
Kittle was mortally wounded Feb. 28, 1993, when a gunman hiding a sawed-off weapon in a paper bag knocked on the front door of Kittle's Rocklin residence and fired a single shotgun blast into his chest.
-April 7, Walter Jarvis Beachem, 52, California Medical Facility.
Beachem was sentenced to life in 1981 for the slaying of his estranged wife's boyfriend in her Del Paso Heights residence, The Bee reported.
Beachem was convicted of shooting Alvin Blakely, 34, six times with a .22 caliber revolver in November 1980.
If you want to give your opinion of an inmate's suitability for parole, you may mail a letter to:
Martin Hoshino, executive director
Board of Parole Hearings
1515 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
For more information on the Board of Parole Hearings, go to:
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