Oklahoma Woman Pleads For Sister's Killer To Stay Behind Bars

A Green Country woman is outraged the man known as the crossbow killer, is up for parole after serving 37 years of his life sentence. 

The murder victim's sister is pleading for him to stay behind bars. Rochelle Ruth says ever since losing her twin sister Michele, it's felt like a piece of her is missing. 

"You'll just get this, and you don't exactly know why you get it, but you get this real loneliness and I think it's missing her," she said. 

Michele was shot in the chest with a poisoned crossbow bolt in 1982 when she was leaving her apartment for work. 

She died six days later with Rochelle by her side. 

"It took everything she had but she just raised up and turned and looked at me, like it was one last time, and that was hard," she said. 

Jimmie Stohler was sentenced to life in prison in 1985 for Michele's murder. 

Rochelle says she often thinks of all things she missed out on without her sister with her. 

"There would have been a lot of things we would have done, well we would have just continued to be as one, you know," she said. 

She says she does worry for her own safety if he is released from prison, and she now struggles with separation anxiety and depression. She says it's asking very little for him to stay behind bars, considering what her family has lost. 

"He got his life, he didn't get the death sentence, he didn't get life without parole, I think he should serve every day of his sentence," she said. 

The parole hearing is scheduled for March.