A man convicted of beating to death his girlfriend in Hubbard in 1994 was denied parole by the state parole board last week.

Alfonsia Perry, 68, will remain at the Richland Correctional Institution until at least his next hearing in January 2029, according to the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office. Perry was sentenced in November 1994 to a term of 20-years-to-life in prison after being convicted in the fatal beating of girlfriend Jeanette Purdue at a home on Rosser Avenue in Hubbard. Perry was also convicted on charges stemming from an attack on three corrections officers in the Trumbull County jail.

According to testimony at trial before former Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge W. Wyatt McKay, the victim was hit approximately 71 times with a wooden bed slat and an ax handle. Witnesses to the attack of the victim were her two children, ages 6 and 8.

Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said he was pleased with the action of the parole board in keeping behind bars a “poster person for domestic violence.”

CHRISTOPHER DANIEL

Also denied release and set to appear before the Ohio Parole Board again in January 2029 is Christopher Daniel, 57, of Warren, who was a co-defendant in a savage, fatal attack of an elderly couple in 1988. It was the seventh time he has been denied parole, according to Watkins, who personally tried this case before a jury in 1989.

Watkins said he was “elated” about the board’s decision because Daniel’s “barbaric actions should require him to serve his full prison term.” Daniel also will continue serving his prison sentence at the Richland Correctional Institution.

He was sentenced to an aggregate of 37 to 100 years by the late Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge F. Mitchell Shaker on March 17, 1989, after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter, attempted murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery. George Melnick, 65, was beaten to death and his wife, Katherine, then 64, was severely injured in a home invasion attack in the couple’s Wick Street SE home on Aug. 15, 1988.

Co-defendant Andre Williams was sentenced to death after his conviction by a jury of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, attempted rape, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery.

The two men broke into the couple’s home, stoned and beat both of them before robbing them of about $2,000, credit cards and a VCR. Daniel hit Katherine Melnick with a piece of cinder brick while she was washing dishes. Watkins said “the velocity of this missile thrown at the victim was so severe that after hitting her head, the cinder block went through the kitchen window where she was standing.”

Katharine Melnick was blinded in the attack and spent the rest of her life in a nursing home, where she died in 2012. Before leaving the home, Daniel also watched as Williams sexually attacked the woman while she lay unconscious and bleeding on the kitchen floor.

Melnick family members have told Watkins they will continue in their quest for a just punishment for both Williams and Daniel. Watkins said Daniels had shown an apparent lack of remorse.

An informant tape recording shows the thinking and behavior of Daniel one month after the Melnick family slaughter. When the informant asked Daniel about the brick attack on Katherine Melnick, by saying: “You must have hummed that mother (the brick) like a baseball?” Daniel replied: “I just popped that (expletive) Travis, right off her head.”