A New Jersey man convicted of killing his parents and two younger brothers in 1976 when he came home from college for Thanksgiving break has been paroled.

Harry De La Roche, 64, was granted parole on May 17, according to state corrections officials. He was then released from South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton to a residential community program on June 29.

De La Roche was an 18-year-old freshman at the Citadel Military Academy in South Carolina when he returned home to Montvale for Thanksgiving and fatally shot his mother and father, Harry Sr. and Mary Jane De La Roche, and his brothers Eric, 12, and Ronald, 15. The latter brother had been shot once in the head and was also beaten and stuffed in a trunk in the attic, according to court documents.

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De La Roche initially confessed to the killings but later recanted in court and claimed he only killed Ronald, who he also said had killed the rest of the family. However, a Bergen County jury found him guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in 1978 and he was sentenced to four concurrent life terms.

No clear motive was ever given for the slayings, but people who knew the family have said De La Roche had been bullied at home and during his time in the military academy, which caused him "to snap."

De La Roche spent more than 45 years in prison and had made several unsuccessful bids for parole, with the last denial coming in 2019.

Police found a Minnesota Army veteran dead last week while responding to a disturbance call, just 11 days after her abusive boyfriend was released from jail on parole.

On July 8, Hopkins police found Danicka Bergeson, 33, dead in an apartment with her boyfriend, 39-year-old Matthew Scott Brenneman, who has been named as a suspect in connection with her death.

"She had a huge smile. Really engaging," Danicka's father, David Bergeson, told KARE 11. "Everything with her was always black or white. She knew exactly what was right and wrong. She never broke the rules. She really had a hard time with that."

Brenneman pleaded guilty to two separate domestic abuse cases in June as part of a parole agreement in which he would not contact Bergeson after his release from jail pending a sentencing hearing scheduled for August.

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The 39-year-old pleaded guilty to striking and biting Bergeson in April while intoxicated. 

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He was released a day after that incident and again attacked Bergeson in May, according to Hennepin County court documents. 

The couple, who were staying together on-and-off, got into an argument, and Bergeson asked Brenneman to leave, police said in a probable cause statement.

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"Defendant responded by striking her with his fists several times and biting her. Defendant then proceeded to choke victim by placing his hands around her neck and reported difficulty breathing," the statement reads. "Victim reported being choked for approximately one minute and thirty seconds. While Defendant was choking Victim, Defendant stated he was going to kill her. Victim was in fear that he would act on this threat."

David Bergeson told KARE 11 that his daughter had difficulty with leaving Brenneman and reporting abuse. After the attack in April, police said Bergeson partially blamed herself for the assault because she was intoxicated, according to court documents.

Her father said her family struggled "to find a safe place for her."

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Hopkins police are investigating Bergeson's death as a homicide. Brenneman is accused of violating the  terms of his parole.

Bergeson was a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she studied animal science, and spent time in the U.S. Army as a medic, according to KARE 11.

If you or someone you know is suffering from domestic violence, please contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1−800−799−7233 (SAFE).