A killer dubbed "Batgirl" for her tattoos and who murdered a Sacramento man in 1991 has been denied a parole by the state Board of Parole Hearings. She also was barred from seeking another parole hearing for seven years, records show.
A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced Michelle Cummiskey, now 40, to 25 years to life in prison plus one additional year for extreme violence for the slaying of Philip Inhofer, 58.
Cummiskey stabbed Inhofer 32 times, bludgeoned him with a blunt object and stuffed his body into the closet of his South Natomas mobile home on March 5, 1991. She placed a plastic bag over his head and took his red 1975 Mercedes.
Cummiskey was dating Inhofer, investigators said. An Inhofer family spokeswoman told The Bee last year that Cummiskey misrepresented her age, name and background to her victim.
Sacramento County homicide detectives, with the help of the FBI, sought Cummiskey, a former prostitute at the Mustang Ranch brothel outside Reno.
She was apprehended two months after the slaying in Biloxi, Miss., with Inhofer's Mercedes, which she had re-painted.
Cummiskey was eligible for the death penalty. Although court records show she told several acquaintances of her plan to kill him and take his car, those theft charges were dropped during a plea bargain where she admitted to first-degree murder.
Prosecutors said it was uncertain whether Cummiskey would have received the death penalty or been convicted of first-degree murder because she claimed to be on mind-altering drugs at the time of the slaying.
Cummiskey was dubbed "Batgirl" by investigators because of a tattoo of bats circling her upper left arm and a tattoo of a vampire bite, complete with blood droplets, on her neck.
Cummiskey is incarcerated at the Valley State Prison for Women, Chowchilla.
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