Robert Golub denied parole

Robert Golub, who was convicted in 1990 of the March 1989 killing of Valley Stream neighbor Kelly Ann Tinyes, was denied parole, the state Parole Board.

Golub, 46, applied for parole for the first time this year after serving 25 years of his 25 years to life sentence for murdering Tinyes, who was a 13-year-old student at Woodmere Middle School.

His parole hearing was on Nov. 18. The decision was announced a week later. He can reapply in November of 2015, parole board officials said.

On March 3, 1989, Kelly, was babysitting her younger brother when she received a call at about 3 p.m., Phone records showed that a call was placed from the Golubs’ house to the Tinyeses’ house. She left her Horton Road home and entered the Golub home a few houses down the street. She was found the next day in a basement closest in the Golubs’ home. Her body was wrapped in a sleeping bag. She was beaten, strangled and sexually mutilated.

The Tinyes launched an online petition campaign after learning that Golub had applied for parole. Robert Tinyes, Kelly’s father, called Golub “ a very dangerous criminal” in an online statement that accompanied the petition.

That Golub’s parole was denied didn’t come as a shock to Herald columnist Randi Kreiss, who covered the story for the Herald newspapers. “It is not a surprise,” she said. “the victim was a much-loved, innocent young school girl. The crime was savage and it shattered not only a life but two families but on some level, an entire community.”