Paroled Killer Of Somers Woman Blames Troubled Childhood, Drug Use

SOMERS, N.Y. -- The man who beat a Somers woman to death while high on PCP blamed a troubled childhood and drug use when he testified before a parole board last month, according to a report by lohud.

Terry Losicco, a native of Stony Point in Rockland, is due to be released from prison next month. He spent decades behind bars for killing a Somers woman and beating her disabled husband in 1980.
Photo Credit: *New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision*

This photo of Somers' Eleanor and Norman Prouty was taken in 1980, the year they were brutally attacked by Terry Losicco.
Photo Credit: *Courtesy of Brooks S. Prouty*

Carol Reif

02/25/2016 6:00 p.m.

Terry Losicco’s tale apparently was convincing; he is due to be released from the Fishkill Correctional Facility on Thursday, March 3, lohud reported.

Losicco, a native of Stony Point in Rockland County, was a teen incarcerated at Lincoln Hall, a juvenile facility in Somers, when he brutally killed 67-year-old Eleanor Prouty, a retired Reader's Digest editor, and attacked her disabled husband, Norman, during a botched 1980 burglary, according to multiple media reports.

The Prouty family is outraged over Losicco’s parole and has called the decision misguided and deplorable, the lohud story said.

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