Decades after her sister was beaten, gagged and left at the bottom of a quarry with cinder blocks weighing down her body, a woman stood before the Massachusetts Parole Board with a painful reminder: This could’ve been your loved one.

“Do not let this monster, Robert Larkin, out to be around your loved ones,” Sonia Leal‘s sister said during the April 8 parole board hearing. “He is a natural-born murderer.”

In November 1994, 20-year-old Larkin and two other men, Kevin Lynch and Shawn Kane, raped, beat and killed 17-year-old Leal.

During a police interview, Larkin described driving with Kane to what used to be referred to as the Combat Zone in Boston to pick up a sex worker. Kane hid in the back of the vehicle because women had been nervous to get in the car with two men.

While he was hid

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