A parole board on Friday denied a bid for parole from a woman who in 1984 convinced five Camp Pendleton Marines to kill her Marine husband, who was ambushed and fatally shot after she lured him to a deserted site.
Laura Ann Troiani, 59, will not be eligible to be considered for parole for another three years following her denial. She remains incarcerated at the California Institute for Women in Chino.
The decision marks the second time she has been denied parole since California’s then-Gov. Jerry Brown commuted her sentence in 2018 from life without the possibility of parole to 35 years to life. When he did so, Brown cite Troiani’s account of “significant domestic abuse by her husband.”
She lost her first bid for release in 2019, with the board citing lack of remorse and insight, and her downplaying of her role in the killing, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, which opposed her release.
On Friday, the parole board cited essentially the same reasons in finding that she was not suitable for parole, Deputy District Attorney John Cross said.
“Given how the hearing played out, the commissioners made the correct call in denying parole,” Cross said. “We feel badly for all of the victim’s family, who continue to have to deal with this so many years later.”
In August 1984, Troiani lured her husband North River Road in Oceanside, telling him her car had broken down. When he arrived, he was shot in the back of the head.
According to Cross, the couple’s daughter spoke at the hearing, and was in favor of her mother’s bid for parole.
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