After killing his grandmother in 1980 and drinking her blood, a man from Massachusetts has been denied parole for the sixth time.
According to a parole board statement, James Riva II, 67, was convicted in 1981 of killing his grandmother, Carmen Lopez, at her Marshfield, Massachusetts, home on April 10, 1980.
According to a January statement from the Massachusetts State Parole Board, he was given a life sentence with an additional 19 to 20 years for his conviction of arson.
The board rejected Riva’s parole appeal, according to the statement, citing his family members’ fears of reprisals.
According to the parole board’s statement, Riva visited Lopez at home the day of the attack and requested him to clean her laundry. Before carrying her body to the bedroom, he took a revolver from the basement and shot her multiple times.
According to the allegation, he then “ripped open her pajamas and sucked the blood from bullet holes.”
About ten minutes after dousing her body in dry gas and setting her ablaze, he departed the house.
He went back to the house with his father and was questioned by officers who were responding to the house fire. The next day, according to the parole board, he was taken into custody.
