Man who killed brother denied parole

Staff report

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Parole Board has ordered that Weathersfield Township native Mark Badilo, 42, remain in prison until at least January 2013 for killing his older brother, Tim Badilo, in 1988.

A parole hearing also took place for Mark Badilo’s accomplice, Jeff McClure, also 42, but no decision has been made regarding his parole, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.

The greatest amount of time the parole board could have given Mark Badilo before his next parole hearing was 10 years, and there is no minimum amount the board could give, an ODRC spokesperson said.

Mark Badilo, McClure and Tim Badilo lived in the same neighborhood in Weathersfield Township near DeForest Townline Road and North Road.

The murder took place in the back yard of McClure’s house on Broadway Street, a short distance from the Badilo family home on DeForest.

Mark Badilo and McClure have served 191/2 years of a 15-years-to-life sentence in the crime. Both were 19 when they killed Tim Badilo.

Confessions obtained in the case indicate that Mark Badilo wanted to kill his brother because the elder Badilo had squandered the money from the janitorial business they were running, and the younger Badilo wanted his brother out of the way so he could take over the business.

McClure and Mark Badilo lured Tim Badilo to McClure’s back yard, then McClure hit Tim Badilo with a pool cue. Mark Badilo tackled Tim Badilo, and it is believed that McClure strangled Tim Badilo with the elastic strap from suspenders.

McClure later burned the body in the trunk of Tim Badilo’s car.