TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has denied parole for a Jenks man serving a life prison sentence for the 1977 murder of a female horseback rider.
The board on Friday voted against recommending parole for Larry Chaney, who was convicted of killing 35-year-old Kendal Ashmore six months after her abduction in March 1977.
The Tulsa World reports that Ashmore and Kathy Ann Brown, a 22-year-old horse trainer employed by Ashmore, were kidnapped in a failed extortion plot and found dead five days later in a shallow grave on a tract of land Chaney owned near Sallisaw.
Chaney was initially sentenced to death for Ashmore's murder. His sentence was changed to life in prison in 1984 after federal appeals court justices found prosecutors had withheld FBI evidence from the defense.