You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime.

From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record.

My guest, Brian Kirk is a proud father of three children, a husband to his wife, Danica,

who he calls his hero, and a victim rights advocate.

His grandmother, Marie Rose Bella Castro, was brutally murdered by her 15-year-old neighbor,

Jacob La Rosa, in March of 2015.

Sentenced to Life Without Parole, a new Ohio law could set Brian's grandmother's killer free.

He's joined by a returning guest, Jane from the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers, NOBJM, for short. Welcome, Jane and Brian. Can you tell us about your grandmother,

Marie Rose Velocastro? Yes. She had such high energy. If I had one tenth of her energy, I would be richer than Bezos.

She was just amazing, always cooking, always cleaning, but not in an obsessive manner,

but just she had a lot of love.

And she was always at the local church helping out

wherever and whenever she could. So I loved surprising her for a visit because if we told her

we were coming, she would end up preparing way too much two, three days in advance. And then I'd

feel guilty. But if I just showed up

at her doorstep, it was the best, A, because she was surprised and B, because she didn't have to do

all that prep work. She was a young at heart type person. Her favorite comedians were Ron White

and Lewis Black. She was an enigma. I mean, she was on one hand a church lady, but on the

other hand, when I visited during college years, she would always give me beer money. So she was

just the kind of person everybody, she was friends with everybody. And she was really a funny, fun lady and very popular among my friends and my sister's friends, like almost to the point where we got a little jealous.

So even at 94, she was this active?

Yes.

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