AGE: 64 INCARCERATED: Richland Correctional Institution
PAROLE HEARING: July 2024
REPEAT OFFENDER: Ninth request for parole from prison
SENTENCE: Given 15 -to life prison sentence by Trumbull County Judge Robert Nader in October 1987 on conviction of murder.
QUOTE: “Without much question, his long criminal history of violence and horrible behavioral record in prison which is non-stop, clearly qualifies him as one of the most incorrigible offenders that this office has seen.” Prosecutor Dennis Watkins
FACTS FROM LYSIKOWSKI’S CRIMINAL HISTORY
In June 1987, Lysikowski stabbed Warren resident Randy J. Nicholson to death in Weathersfield. Lysikowski, who pleaded guilty to the crime, had lived in Campbell and Weathersfield at the time.
In a victim’s impact statement made to the court, the victim’s wife states “I only know that a person has cold-bloodedly taken my husband’s life, and that our (4-year-old) daughter will grow up without her Daddy, whom she loved very much. I know the loss of losing her Daddy has caused her a lot of pain… she has horrible nightmares where she screams for her Daddy. She is also afraid; she asks if the bad man that killed her Daddy is going to kill her.”
A July 25, 1985, police report shows Lysikowski as a suspect in a stabbing death in Orange Park, La. He served some time in Louisiana for that crime before moving to Ohio.
Lysikowski was released on parole once in 2007, and the inmate nearly killed again. He collected a dozen violations during that five months of freedom. Testimony from a woman showed that on Sept. 8, 2007, Lysikowski spent a busy day of abuse, starting with bloodying a cat’s mouth and taking an ax after a dog. The woman stopped him, and the inmate threw the ax at her before starting to beat the woman and kicked her down the steps.
Through his years of incarceration, Lysikowski has collected an impressive stack of in-prison disciplinary infractions, some 99, from May 11, 2006 through 2024. The incidents range from abusing narcotic drugs, stealing, threatening guards and acts of violence.
AGE: 70
INCARCERATED: Grafton Correctional Institution
PAROLE HEARING: July 2024
REPEAT OFFENDER: Fifth parole from prison request
SENTENCE: Given 12 -to 40-year sentence on 1992 convictions of 20 sex counts including rape, pandering obscenity involving minors, minor in nudity material, pandering sex material involving minors, corrupting minors, disseminating sexual material to minors
QUOTE:
“Without a doubt to know Martin Petersime is to know the consummate child sexual
predator lurking among us. Thankfully the parole board with its past decisions regarding Petersime has kept us safe and more specifically, our children out of harm’s way… from the Petersime criminal history, … (he) has been the “Traveling Pedophile” going from Piqua, Ohio to Cleveland, Ohio and to Warren, Ohio.”
Prosecutor Dennis Watkins
FACTS OF THE TRUMBULL COUNTY CRIMINAL CASE
Court and police records showed some of the young male victims were taking music lessons at Petersime’s downtown Warren Music Center, while others were hired to clean up or were enticed there with marijuana that Petersime admitted he kept handy for that reason.
None of the victims were named during the highly publicized criminal case, except the one who turned in the music teacher on April 28, 1992, by going to the Warren Police Department with a pornographic videotape made by Petersime.
NOTE: There are four of Petersime’s victims and family members registered with the state.
For more information, contact Guy Vogrin, investigator / public information officer, Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office, 330-675-2485.
AGE: 55
INCARCERATED: Chillicothe Correctional Institution
PAROLE HEARING: June 2024
REPEAT OFFENDER: Sixth parole from prison request
SENTENCE: Given 15 -to 70-year sentence on 1987 convictions of rape, felonious assault, aggravated burglary, and gross sexual imposition
CRIME: Broke into SW Warren home of 62-year-old woman, who was speech impaired, stabbed her dog, then bound her and repeatedly raped her while accomplice removed items from her home.
Prosecutor Dennis Watkins noted that Stargell was paroled in 2009 and he stalked a worker to victimize at a dollar store in Campbell. He pulled a knife and threw a gallon of milk on the woman’s male co-worker who tried to intervene.
In one of his prior letters, Watkins stated “The cruelty, repeated brutality and serial rapes shown to a helpless disabled woman over an extended period of time in her own home is beyond reason and understanding and can only be explained as pure evil.”
OTHER QUOTE
The website, blockparole.com, organized by Bret Vinocur of Upper Arlington, noted Stargell’s first female victim died a few years ago, and she spent the remainder of her life haunted by what Stargell did to her.
“We believe to further the interests of justice and to protect the community, Terrance Stargell should be required to serve his maximum sentence of 70 years in prison,” Vinocur wrote.
For more information, contact Guy Vogrin, investigator / public information officer, Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office, 330-675-2485.
INCARCERATED: Grafton Correctional Institution.
Up for parole in June 2024 – serving 23-year-to -life sentence for August 1995 convictions of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery in the shooting death of 24-year-old Derrick Trimble. Sentenced by the late Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Mitchell F. Shaker. Totts had death penalty specifications dismissed as a result of his guilty pleas to avoid trial.
“Raat (aka Samuel Totts) had this look in his eyes like a wild look that would put fear in your heart.” – Prosecutor Dennis Watkins in quoting a witness in this case.
This is Totts’ fourth attempt at gaining parole. The Prosecutor’s office successfully opposed Totts’ bids in 2011, 2019 and 2022 citing the seriousness of his crimes, his relatively young age (Totts only has served 29 years of a life sentence) and his disciplinary problems while incarcerated.
For more information, contact newsletter editor Guy M. Vogrin, investigator/public information officer at the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office at 330-675-2485.