The man found guilty of the murder of his favorite coach, and the Benton City teacher will remain in prison after the Board of the State Correctional Department of Washington found that it was not safe to release him.
His accomplice Jordan Castillo, then 14, beat Bob Mars after the coach allowed two teens to his portable high school class to use a landline phone when they said they didn’t have to go home.
44 -year -old Mars died.
He was an assistant football coach at Kennewick High, teacher and wrestling coach at Ki-Be-BE, Ki-Be BE.
He lived in Richland with his wife and younger sons, then 11 and 9, and his eldest son Bobby was deployed in Camp Pendleton, California.
An indefinite Council for the Penalty of the State Correctional Department said Tuesday publicly publicly publicly publicly publicly made that Robert Suarez is more likely to not commit a new crime if he was discharged from prison.
Mars Bob
Former Benton District Prosecutor Andy Miller credited the research, analysis and support of Martian widow Kris Mars, convincing the Board to imprison the Board, despite Washington’s early release laws, which, according to Miller, support the offense.
Prison staff and psychological evaluation recommended a release to help stacking deck for the release of Suarez, Miller said.
Kris Mars developed support in social media to be locked in, convincing the residents of the Tri-City district to write letters, e-mail. By mail and June In Lacey, Wash.
The Board then held a separate meeting with the Suarez and his lawyer.
Kris Mars listened to a listening and was worried that when Suarez talked about his crime, some of what he said did not match what he remembered from his court, she said.
Then the Benton District Prosecutor Andy Miller helps widow Kris Mars when she carries an urn containing her husband’s ashes after 2022. Filed a statement in 2022. In the case of the Benton District, Robert Suarez, a convicted killer, is in the case.
She called Miller, who prosecuted the case, but has since withdrawn, and Detective Lee Canti, who has investigated the murder to confirm her memory.
In Miller’s tips, she ordered the court to record and then found time marks that deliberately misleading statements she described in detail in the letter to the State Board.
Cant and Miller also wrote letters to justify what Mars thought of lies.
“To this day, after 21 years, he is not responsible for his actions,” Kris Mars told Herald.
In a letter to the Board, she also asked Suarez to prevent a 150 -mile distance from Benton County. His plan is to settle again in the city of Tri.
Returning to the Tri-City, it could traumatize the Mars family and reflect the failure of justice and public security, she wrote.
She was also concerned that the dependence of the Suarez gang was not sufficiently considered. She says he is still violent and is in contact with the gang members “Tr-Cities”, Spokane and Walla Walla.
The Board denies early launch
The Board’s decision to deny its release indicated its concerns.
The Board agreed with Kris Mars that Suarez had violence in prison related to his membership gangs.
From 2006 to 2019 He received many serious violations that included “offensive behavior or some use of aggression,” the board said in its summary of the decision.
2022 The convicted killer Robert Suarez was escorted to the Benton District Higher Court for a counter -hearing.
The Board was also concerned that the description of Suarez about the killing of Mars at the board’s meeting was different from the accounts of the case record, as noted by Kris Mars.
Suarez said at the hearing that before Castillo beat Mars, Suarez told him he would not have to kill him, on the basis of the Board’s decision summary.
“This information is not recorded in another case file and seems to be Mr. Suarez’s attempt to reduce its guilt,” the board said.
The explanation of the events about the events was also not included in the pre -planning of the murder that was not reliable, the board of the board said.
“This obvious lack of transparency is questioned when he took responsibility for his crimes ….,” the summary of the decision said.
The Board was also concerned that Suarez wants to return to the Tri-City.
This shows that there is a lack of understanding of the impact of his crime for those who knew and loved Mars and the whole community, the board said.
According to the summary of the decision, the psychological assessment of suaresz was fundamentally favorable, but he earned the second largest risk of violence.
In that category, 45% of criminals are expected to meet the criteria of violence within five years from release, which will increase to 69% over 12 years.
Psychological evaluation also showed that he has “seriously dysfunctional upbringing, which is likely to make it difficult to develop trust, empathy/care for other people and make -up.”
Fight for Bob Mars justice
Kris Mars, a teacher, studied in the classroom on Tuesday when he received a phone call about the decision but could not answer it until after the class ended after 40 minutes.
She could barely breathe until she could return the call, and then “was stunned” that the board helped with her, “The Herald said.
Suarez was convicted in 2005. Up to 26 years and eight months in prison. He will no longer be able to apply again to early release for five years, at a time when he finished his sentence in 2030. At the end of the end.
Last fall, members of the Mars family were shocked when they were informed that the board had decided to consider the Suarez petition for early release.
“I just suppressed,” said Kris Mars. – I cried my eyes.
The family thought that 2022 The decision to reject the application for shortening prison sentences for his murder will be the last legal act in the case.
“I remember thinking,” I’m going to wavy a white flag. I just can’t do it anymore, “she said. But she could not give up the fight for the man’s justice, she said.
Kris Mars collected support, including media in Portland and Seattle, and then in social media.
One member of the board said he had not seen a case that influenced the community, Kris Mars said.
On Tuesday night, she announced a gratitude to anyone who helped to convince the board that Suarez should not be released.
“I couldn’t report we did it !!” She has announced. “All this community talked, showed, and we changed! Suarez’s petition for early release was denied !!! It will not be launched by 2030.”
However, the case has not yet been done.
The Mars family was told this spring that Castillo, an accomplice of Suarez, also applied for early release. His hearing is expected in February.
Castillo was convicted in a separate trial after Suarez 2005. At the end of the 19th century and sentenced to 29 years and nine months.
Some offenders who have not been 18 yet, but convicted as adults, may ask for an indefinite period after the service of the penitentiary review Council after the service for at least 20 years.
Konan-Benton Secondary School football teammates hold candles in 2004. Memorial worship to kill coach Bob Mars. Hundreds gathered at the school football stadium to remember Mars, who also taught physical education
2002 The night of the murder
At night, Suarez and Castillo were in Benton city to visit Suarez Girl’s restaurant she worked.
They were looking for a ride home to Kennewick when they saw the Mars truck in Cyna-Benton High School parking lot.
They discussed a comprehensive truck steal plan. Suarez forced Castillo to promise that he would not give up on the summary of the Review Board decision.
Mars returned to school to throw the game video tape after the Saturday evening festival Ki-Be High football team victory.
Teens approached Mars outside their class and asked for money to call home, but Mars allowed them to use the phone there.
When teenagers left, Castill was beaten by Mars.
Mars ran to the main building where his body was found on Sunday morning after his wife said he had not returned home on Saturday night.
Robert A. Suarez was 17 when the jurors found him guilty of murdering the death of Benton City coach and teacher Bob Mars.
Since the killers did not receive the Mars truck keys before it passed, Suarez broke the truck window, and he stole $ 474, including a night concession booth, as well as a cell phone.
The conviction in the memorandum of the conviction states that both teens were considering returning to end Mars because they thought he looked at their faces well. But they could not enter the locked main building.
Suarez said after three days of arrest Canta that “I was pleased with the money we found …. We got the money, we have the money I have, I have in mind, everything and nothing,” the summary said.
To amend WA early release laws?
Miller stated that Kris Mars’ struggle, in order to keep Suarez in prison, attracted attention around the state, and that the legislator could consider the law amendments to early release.
“I wish the legislator and the courts would know that every time the family reports such (from early release petitions), it is like something that has torn the scab,” he said.
Mars said there would never be enough ways to thank the community for support.
“They really gathered around Bob’s memory …” she said. “He didn’t know the stranger and all was his friend. And a year later, the community still feels it.”