Killer of 71-year-old Boston man granted parole in brutal 1998 beating death, board cites sobriety, rehabilitation

In the Mary Ellen McCormack Housing Development in South Boston, Alfred Fisher, a 71-year-old resident, spent the evening of July 27, 1998, on the phone with a friend. The conversation halted abruptly as an intruder, Jody Oleson, entered Fisher’s apartment. Oleson, then 27, was on parole after serving four years in prison for prior convictions …