Tinyes family: Keep killer in prison

Golub parole opposed, online petition created

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The pain of losing his daughter to a brutal murder hasn’t subsided after a quarter century, and for Richard Tinyes and his family, facing the possibility that her killer could walk out of prison brings a renewed sense of horror.
“Where does it end?” he said last Saturday. “How long do we have to be victimized?”
Every day since March 3, 1989, has been marred by what happened then, when Kelly Ann Tinyes received a phone call and walked to the house of the Golub family, who lived on the same street in Valley Stream. What happened inside has been disputed ever since, but Robert Golub, then 21, was convicted of killing the 13-year-old Woodmere Middle School student, mutilating her body and hiding it in the basement.
Golub was sentenced in 1990 to 25 years to life in prison. At his first parole hearing two years ago, he made his first admission of responsibility for Kelly Ann’s death and apologized. He said he hadn’t intended to kill her, but that he had accidentally knocked her down a flight of stairs and then dragged her around the house, and he presumed she suffocated when her clothes rode up. Kelly’s father called it a shameless attempt at getting released from prison.
The parole board denied Golub’s release, which the Tinyes family fought with an online petition that got almost 3,600 signatures.
The petition the family started last Wednesday got nearly as many in three days. “We are begging you to help us keep Robert Golub incarcerated,” it reads. “Please help us make sure that he will never be freed from prison, just as we can never be freed from the pain and inconsolable grief his actions have caused our family. Robert Golub has never shown remorse or any human emotion for what he has done and we believe he would murder again if given the chance.”
The parole hearing is scheduled for November.

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