Judge in Somers Murder Case Dies at 89

Judge Angelo Ingrassia, the man who sentenced Somers murderer Terry Losicco to 27 1/3 years to life in prison, died on Thursday, according to reports. He was 89. 

The Losicco case was one of several notable cases during Ingrassia's tenure. The judge sent the man to prison for the horrific 1980 murder of civic leader Eleanor R. Prouty and the near-fatal beating of her husband Norman R. Prouty Sr.

When her murderer was sentenced to prison, Judge Ingrassia is reported to have said that he could not remember a more "brutal or vicious crime than this one" and recommended that Losicco never be granted parole. 

"In killing my grandmother, Losicco removed the one person on whom so much
depended," said grandson Brooks Prouty, who began an intense online petition to keep Losicco behind bars. "In killing her, he stripped us of our home and our family, as we had known them.

Losicco's parole hearing was this week. Relatives of Eleanor and Norman Prouty, Sr. are awaiting a parole board’s decision on whether Losicco would stay behind bars.

Ingrassia served as administrative judge for the judicial district that includes Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties, according to this article in the Journal News.