A California Department of Corrections officer speaks to inmates at Chino State Prison in Chino, Calif., on Dec. 10, 2010. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) A former Westminster attorney and co-founder of an Orange County motorcycle club who has been incarcerated for nearly 40 years for three murders in 1980 has been ordered to be released within 48 hours due to California’s compassionate release laws after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, authorities announced Feb. 16.
Thomas F. Maniscalco, 78, was serving a 46-year to life sentence after he was convicted in 1994 for the fatal shootings of fellow motorcyclist Richard Rizzone, 36, Thomas Monahan, 28, who served as Rizzone’s bodyguard, and Rena Miley—a 19-year-old daughter of a Los Alamitos Police Department officer, who was raped and tortured by Maniscalco prior to her death. Thomas F. Maniscalco (Courtesy of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office) “Where is the compassion for the victims?” […]
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