Mother Braces for Fight Against Parole for Her Daughter's Killer

Jennifer Lundy moved to Norwalk partly to escape the painful memories. Twenty three years ago, she lived in Montclair, but that's where her daughter was killed.

Brittany was only 3 years old. Her strangled body was found stuffed in the closet of a man who had been renting a room in Lundy's house.

A jury convicted Chuck Johnson of murder and he was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison with the possibility for parole.

On Wednesday, a parole board will hear his case for the second time, and decide if he can finally leave the Chukawalla State facility, where he's been housed for two decades.

Lundy has vowed to fight any such release and she's been waging a fierce campaign, online and elsewhere, to keep him behind bars.

On Monday she showed the photos she plans to present showing the innocent life that was taken that day -- Oct. 10, 1993.

"We just wanna show that it's not just a child that was murdered," Lundy said. "There's a family behind it that loved her, and there's a family that misses her."

Lundy's supporters claim that a huge cache of written material, including letters from law enforcement and more than 1,000 petition signatures, has been excluded from information provided to the parole board.

They believe those letters could be crucial to their case to keep Johnson behind bars.

"If you can kill a three-year-old, how can you say you won't hurt someone else again?" Lundy said.

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