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Potential Parole For Delaware's Youngest Multiple Murderer

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Donald Lee Torres was 14 years old when he set a fire in 1989 that killed a man, his wife and their two young children in a Middletown home.

Now, he has some hope the hope that he could be paroled by 2019, and if so, he would be the youngest multiple murder in Delaware history to do so.

A judge recently reduced his eight consecutive life sentences to 110 years.

Torres is now subject to a law that made illegal for a minor to get an automatic life sentence.

He could now have his sentence reduced after serving 30 years  allowing him to go before a judge, who could let him out on parole.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.