Overview
- Alberto Tamez won parole from the California Board of Parole Hearings on December 30, 2025, clearing the way for his release after a 1974 life-with-parole sentence.
- San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said he urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to reverse the decision, and he denounced the governor’s choice not to act.
- Tamez, now 75, remains at the California Men’s Colony as officials complete the standard parole release steps that follow a granted hearing.
- Prosecutors say Genevieve Adaline Moreno was kidnapped, raped, beaten and strangled in June 1974, and they note Tamez admitted involvement and pled no contest to first-degree murder.
- Critics link the case to California’s elderly parole policies that let inmates 50 or older with at least 20 years served seek hearings, a reform Newsom has backed.