Parole hearing set

WARREN

John Tidwell, 70, who returned to Ohio last week after completing a 42-year prison sentence for murder in California, will have a parole hearing in Ohio in May, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

Tidwell killed another man Dec. 13, 1973, in California and also pleaded no contest to one count of second-degree murder in the July 1973 shooting deaths of Warren industrialist C. Walter Holmquist and his wife, Dorothy, during a burglary in their Cortland home.

An April 25, 1980, plea agreement signed by then-Trumbull County Prosecutor J. Walter Dragelevich says Tidwell would serve his 15-years-to-life Ohio prison sentence at the same time as his California sentence. But the Ohio Parole Board has the last say on when Tidwell will leave prison in Ohio. That is the reason for the May hearing. Tidwell is in the Lorain Correctional Institution.