EARLIER REPORT
A convicted killer is up for possible parole this November, and family of the man killed is trying to keep him behind bars.
Mark Ledbetter, now 47, has been in prison for 22 years. He was convicted in 1993 of the stabbing death of Danny Clark Sr.
Clark Sr. was killed outside the Huber Mobile Home Park in Greene County.
Danny Clark Jr., the victim’s son, said come November, this will be his fourth time appearing in front of the parole board.
“A person like this should never be released, he’s a child abuser, he’s a murderer, and he’s repeated this,” Clark Jr. said.
Back in 1993, Clark Sr. was approached by two little girls asking for help. They said their mother’s boyfriend was abusing them. Clark Sr. then encountered Ledbetter in the street and he was stabbed in the arm and chest.
“I had to watch him fall in on the floor, gasping for air, crying he couldn’t breathe, he wanted a pillow,” Clark Jr. said.
Clark Jr. said Ledbetter has shared no motive for the murder. The two had a face-to-face meeting earlier this year, but Clark Jr. said Ledbetter was “all smirks and smiles.”
Ledbetter is incarcerated in Madison Correctional Institution.