A Fall River woman who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the first-degree murder of her husband more than 25 years ago has been released on medical parole.
Robin Raposa, now 65, was freed from prison on July 9, 2026, after successfully petitioning for compassionate release due to an undisclosed medical condition.
In 2000, a jury convicted Raposa in the death of her husband, Robert Raposa. According to court records, on the afternoon of September 6, 1998, Raposa told neighbors that someone had shot her husband. Police responding to the Varley Street home found Robert dead on the floor of a trailer behind the residence he shared with Raposa and their daughter. He had suffered two gunshot wounds, a blunt-force trauma to the head from a hammer, and two parallel cuts behind his right ear consistent with a knife or blade. The medical examiner estimated the time of death between noon and 3 p.m…