A man who was convicted of beating and stabbing to death a woman and her disabled grandson was denied parole.
In September 1991, Jesse Rogers went to the Dorchester residence of Alba Pellegrini with the intent to rob the house, according to the Massachusetts Parole Board. Rogers had previously been assigned by the Boston Visiting Nurses Association to provide home care for Pellegrini’s grandson, John Ward, who suffered from the effects of cerebral palsy, but had been removed from the case weeks earlier due to his erratic behavior.
Rogers, who was 30 years old at the time, viciously attacked Pellegrini, 77, hitting her in the head with a tea kettle and stabbing her four times, including one strike that reached her heart. Rogers then went to the bedroom of Ward, 32, and attacked him with the same tea kettle before stabbing him to death…