Thaindian News

July 30 (IBNS) Twenty -four years have passed since Donna Yaklich slew her Pueblo police officer husband in a murder-for-hire design.

Yaklich sat at a table on Tuesday where her future will be decided. Now in a halfway house, she served 21 years for the crime.

She had been in that chair before. This time the difference is that there is a reason to believe that her parole might be approved. It was because her request was not rejected by the parole board member.

Her case will now be heard by the full parole board at its next monthly meeting.

Her attorney, Phil Cherner, said that if the full board rules in her favor, Yaklich could be paroled this fall.

Yaklich was convicted of second-degree murder. The two brothers convicted of killing Dennis Yaklich, Charles and Edward Greenwell, testified against Donna Yaklich at her trial.

They testified she had promised to pay them $45,000 if they would kill her husband, said Denver Post.

Dennis Yaklich was murdered the night of Dec. 12, 1985, outside his home in Avondale, near Pueblo, with a shotgun. Donna Yaklich was inside the home at the time.

Following his death, she cashed in a $250,000 insurance policy on his life.

She was given a 40-year sentence, the maximum. After serving 21 years in the Colorado women’s correctional facility in Cañon City, she was released to a halfway house and an intense supervision program.

“What she did was unforgivable,” Vanessa Yaklich said. “I wish Donna would come to terms with the pain she has caused.”

In her plea to the parole board, Donna Yaklich said, “I wish there was something I could do to make it better. What I did was wrong.”