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Local Family Issues Plea To Keep Murderers In Prison
January 6, 2023
Update: Parole Denied For Two Nokomis Brothers In 1993 Murder
A North Escambia family has issued a plea for area residents to help stop the parole of two Nokomis men behind bars for the 1993 murders of a woman and 12-year old girl.
Shannon Dean Barlow and Franklin Lee Barlow, Jr. are both serving life sentences with the possibility of parole for the murders of Kathy Victor Hall Barlow and Angel Marie Hall.
On October 10, 1993, the Barlow brothers went out with Albert Ganoe “Rocky” Beasley, consuming alcohol and smoking marijuana. They then went to the home of Kathy Barlow in Perdido, Ala., shooting her in the head with a .410-gauge shotgun when she opened the door. According to testimony, he then went to the room of Angel Hall, 12, raped her and shot her in the face.
“They were shot, stabbed, raped, beaten, strangled, buried in the sand at the gravel lakes near our home, then urinated on,” said Marsha Maher, Kathy Barlow’s niece and a North Escambia resident. “They surely do not need to be paroled and pose a threat to myself, my family and to our community. So for the sake of our family’s sanity and security and also for our community, please help keep them in prison.”
Shannon Barlow was sentenced to three consecutive life terms, and Franklin Barlow was sentenced to two life sentences. Both are now eligible for parole from prison in Alabama. Beasley remains behind bars, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
The parole hearing for the Barlow brothers is set for January 11. Maher is asking area residents to send a protest email to the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles at victim.services@paroles.alabama.gov.
For those interested, Maher suggests the following email be sent:
“We, the undersigned, respectfully protest the parole of Inmates Shannon Dean Barlow AIS# 183626 AND Franklin Lee Barlow, Jr AIS# 182999. They both pled guilty to the murders of Kathy and Angel Hall. Please impose the maximum (5) five years before the next hearing.”
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58 Responses to “Local Family Issues Plea To Keep Murderers In Prison”
She was my best friend an I hated to lose her an her mom by these horrible men they should be locked for life without….parole
Parole should not even be on the board. Sadistic murder.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY , THEY SHOULDVE BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH PERIOD !Kathy was an amazing human being and Angel was just that an absolute angel .
In bible times they would be stoned to death. No jail or parole just stoned to death. Don’t let them out. Threw the keys away.
It is apparent that these two are easily classified as being “cold blooded” killers, and my belief is they should never be allowed to walk free again. I say “No Parole!”
WTH(excuse my language) but how do they even have the possibility to parole
Our justice system is so screwed up. Our judicial system will lock up drug addicts when there should b a place mandated to go that will help cope with their addiction ..Yet offers parole to Murderist Child Molesting Rapers..This is Horrifying .The judicial system is supposed to help family’s who are now victims and suffering a broken heart because of low life unreformable criminals.Instead they ignore cries from family’s w/addicts that are reformable if given the proper armor to battle with and a beautiful family who has endured to much heart ache already ripping off bandages of wounds that will never fully heal.My ♥ goes out to this family& everyone affected by this tragedy! I have sent the email and am spreading the word so that more people can help this family keep the justice they deserve May havebGod be willing to see these 3 men take their last breath behind the barbed chain linked fence in a cold lonely cell dieing before asking God to forgive them so that their souls are doomed to Hell in the afterlife for the rest of Eternity!
#JUSTICEforVictims
#PrisonforUnreformables
#HelpforAddicts
#HOPEforFamiies!
No parole! This was a 12 year old child! I was a teacher at this baby’s school. There was not a sweeter child. This school and community still remembers and these murderers do not deserve to get out ever!!
No parole. They shouldn’t even have the opportunity for a parole hearing. Life should be life not a few years.
They committed a crime and murdered these innocent lives. These “waist” need nothing less than to stay behind bars until the rot! The same thing should happen to the murder as they do unto others.. DO not let them out!
They should of been sentenced to death!
Imagine if this were your family?! These two beautiful souls suffered the fate of these evil men. No parole or pardon should be considered ever.
absolutely no parole…do not release those killers…where is the link to send the email? …will it be documented…do you count… will it happen to your family?
Kathy was an awesome lady and so fun to be around. Angel was just that,an angel. She was so sweet and innocent and what these low lifes did was pure evil. Not only did they snuff out their lives but they permanently left a hole in the hearts of their family and all that loved Kathy and Angel. I have gladly emailed a request to deny them parole and I sincerely pray they never get parole. They certainly do not deserve it. To Kathy and Angel’s family, I’m so sorry that yall have to be put through this over and over again. I pray that God wrap his arms of comfort around yall.
Parole?? Really? This is completely wrong. They took these 2 lives. Take theirs.,
I was one of Angel’s bestfriends when this happened and she had invited me to spend the night that night and my dad didn’t allow me to because he said he had a gut feeling I needed to stay home. That gut feeling saved my life, but not my friend or her mother’s. I still have nightmares of the phone call I got and the stories of what happened and what the scene looked like. I later found out my brother was in the store when the boys came in the store covered in blood saying they hit a deer with the bodies still in the car. I pray these murderers never get out of jail to hurt anyone again. They killed a community and all of our childhood from that point.
After reading about these criminals and the senseless crimes they committed I truly believe the pose a serious threat to the victim’s family and the community. I believe they will be repeat offenders and continue to commit these horrific crimes. It is my opinion they should not be release but to remain in prison in an effort to keep the community safe.
Email Sent.
Giving these thugs the hope of being paroled is more then they deserve. Keep them behind bars. They should have to suffer with every breath they breathe.
I shudder every time these guys names are mentioned.
My son’s were camping across the gravel lake when these two were doing their ghastly deed of burying these people. Not knowing what the two had been up to at some point my sons actually helped get them unstuck from the sand. Needless to say how horrific that was for a mother to find out. My son’s could have became victims.
NO PAROLE EVER
Email sent
So sad that this family has to go through this over and over. Praying for this family as, once again they are forced to relive the suffering this mother and her child went through. Prison is too good for these individuals.
To make a family have to deal with this every five years is inhumane. Reading this story for the first time, it makes me sick to know the parole board, the justice system, allows this. How they can live with themselves is beyond me. Honestly, the state should have sent them to their death years ago.
Go ahead let them out ….. Kin of the deceased would love to get there hands on them!!!
I knew them been in church with them. They did not deserve what they did to them. Angle was a sweet little girl. They need to stay behind bars like Beasley no parole. You done the crime you pay the time.
They have no respect for life!
Kathy and Angel.. I pray the evilness of your crime keeps these monsters where they belong. This was such a heinous crime that these lowlife, uncaring, heartless pieces of human waste could possible think that they belong and should walk around with us people that would never even think about doing such evil. They will one day face the true maker and the true sentence of their lives! I pray peace to Kathy and Angel’s family!!!!
A perfect example of why I say save the tax payers money how simple !!!! 1- chance 1 shot 1 time and I will gladly pay for the one bullet in my own 44 magnum!!!
No empathy for another human beings suffering. Sociopathic behavior, at the very least. It’s not fair to society to let either of them loose. The crimes that these two did actually deserve a death sentence. 30 years in prison is just the beginning. They deserve to have been executed long ago.
They are only eligible for parole because the law would not allow them to be sentenced as juveniles to life without parole at the time. They have also come up for review several times in the past and have been denied. It will almost certainly be denied again. They deserve to spend the rest of their lives apart from society.
Email sent.
Sure, let them go…in Russia. Pull their citizenship.
If, which I hope they are not, ever released, their addresses should be provided on a public forum. I sent the email.
Email sent
I didnt live in the area during the time, but no living being deserves this type of brutality.
RIP to Kathy and Angel, and I pray for peace for their families.
May the sun never shine on these murderers as long as they’re on this earth.
It would be reasonable to think for thier own safety they remain locked up.
If not..it would be reasonable to assume they would have a date with thier demise.
Society has had enough
Done. They should have been executed post hast. Let god sort out if they get a do over, but Kathy Victor Hall Barlow and Angel Marie Hall got no chance to be free to live again.
They were my cuz they killed let them rot in hell
Please consider the facts of the case and the way human life was of no value. I beg you to not release these individuals back into society.
…what the hell? They did all that and they are considering LETTING THEM OUT? Our justice system is so screwed. I have zero faith in this country anymore. Protect your own, worry about everything else later.
I hope someone can explain why 2 life sentences and 3 consecutive life sentences are somehow eligible for parole. And after such a short time. This sounds ridiculous, but I guess we should be ready to believe anything nowadays.
Keep them locked up. That little girl was a sweet little girl did not deserve what she went through.
It only takes a few minutes to help this family out. A email is so easy to send and quick to write. It would be nice for the family of Kathy and Angel to stay at peace knowing they stay locked up in prison. They should have never been able to be up for parole.
NO PAROLE!!!!!!.
This was a very closeness to lose others that weekend. Scarey, please do not allow them to be free. Lived in this neighborhood an friends with Kathy. My niece was 13yrs old, so close to Angel. Friends forever. This night charged others life’s to be confused an scared for ever. Please don’t allow freedom. I knew all theses kids personally. And have helped the others over my 30 years of being a nurse. Lots to others life’s there evilness was in October.
The only way they should see the outside of prison, is their hanging on the courthouse lawn.
E-mailed a personal plea to the parole board. I encourage all of you who will to do the same. These monsters were given two and three life sentences for very good reasons. I have friends who go through this every five years when their loved one’s murderer comes up for parole, and it is horrible for them, as if they aren’t suffering enough. Please help keep them behind bars so they aren’t ruining or ending more lives. Thank you, NorthEscambia.com for including Ms. Maher’s plea.
They do not need to get out they did it if they get out something bad will happen to them
It seems these two murdering thugs made their beds, albeit they are state prison cots. Let them stay there.
These monsters should have received the death penalty. That being said, I hope they never see the light of day. By the way, .410 is not a gauge, it’s a caliber. A .410 shotgun would equate to a 67 gauge.
Done. Keep these animals in cages where they belong. They should have been gotten the death penalty.
These guys aren’t going anywhere.
Why are those two still breathing air? If the Parole Board is dumb enoug to release them then they should have to be responsible and move them in wit their family, See how that turns out.
It’s a shame that all did not long ago met the electric chair.
To soft on crime is a big part of it continually getting worse.
The family shouldn’t have to worry about what night these 2 would get drunk,high and visit their home in the middle of the night if released.
Email sent requesting to deny parol for these animals! Please everyone take two minutes to send in your request for denial of parole!
I will never understand why there is such a thing as a “life” sentence, especially in such a case as this.
If anyone paroles these animals that murdered a mother and then raped and murdered a 12 year old should be serving life sentences without parole themselves. It is time for accountability within the judicial system. These two animals should not be breathing our air..
WHY???? they murdered a woman and a child–they shouldn’t even be breathing
Email sent.
It was more heinous than described above.
Done. May they rot in prison. Not gonna be good if they get out, they may end up on the receiving end.