Decades after her sister was beaten, gagged and left at the bottom of a quarry with cinder blocks weighing down her body, a woman stood before the Massachusetts Parole Board with a painful reminder: This could’ve been your loved one.
“Do not let this monster, Robert Larkin, out to be around your loved ones,” Sonia Leal‘s sister said during the April 8 parole board hearing. “He is a natural-born murderer.”
In November 1994, 20-year-old Larkin and two other men, Kevin Lynch and Shawn Kane, raped, beat and killed 17-year-old Leal…