Cold-Blooded Child Killer Is Getting Parole, And Will Be Walking The Streets Soon

She’s been locked away for thirty-one years because she was convicted of killing a child. But now 75-year-old Marybeth Tinning is set to be released from her prison cell at the Taconic Correctional Facility where she has spent the last three decades thinking about what she did. Although she has been trying to be granted parole since 2007 – with six failed attempts under her belt – she has finally been given her freedom and won’t be looking back.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Tinning’s earliest release date is set for August 21. While lawyers are striving to get their clients out from jail – and elderly people face a bigger risk due to the virus – it does not seem to mean that Tinning will benefit like others criminals. Although she may be out of prison, she will have to be supervised for the rest of her life.

Prison officials agreed that Tinning is “scheduled for release pending the completion of her community preparation package, which includes an approved residence.”

However, critics of the justice system feel that Tinning should remain behind bars for the rest of her days. She was convicted of smothering her four-month-old daughter Tami Lynne in 1987 after killing the little girl – in apparent cold blood – two years before the iron fist of justice slammed down on her.

All of Tinning’s children died before they turned four. The children died one after the other from 1972 all the way to 1985 when she was finally caught and arrested.

Tinning was originally indicted on three of the deaths. However, she was officially charged and tried only on the death of Tami Lynne. She denied that she had anything to do with the deaths of any of her children. She was convicted and sentenced to twenty years to life because the evidence against her was profound.

Years later, in 2011, when Tinning was looking to get out of jail, she admitted that she killed Tami Lynne to the parole board. She hoped that it would gain some sympathy for her case.

“After the deaths of my other children … I just lost it,” she told the board during her fourth parole hearing. “(I) became a damaged, worthless piece of a person, and when my daughter was young, in my state of mind at that time, I just believed she was going to die also. So I just did it.”

Throughout the whole ordeal, Tinning’s husband, Joseph, never wavered in his support of his murderous wife. He even visited her in prison once every two months during her decades behind bars. He truly loved her despite she was accused of doing to their children.

Joseph admitted that the whole thing made him very “emotional.”

“It’s very emotional. “She was very emotional telling me,” Joseph Tinning said, but he’s “very glad that it will soon be all over with.”

Although authorities were hesitant to let her out of prison, Tinning has always vowed that she will add value to society.

“I ask you to see me as I am today, not as I was then, and to show you that I am a changed and loving person, that I am confronted with the result of my actions every day,” she wrote. “I will carry the pain and regret for the rest of my life. I would be an asset, not a problem, to society.”