Hospital Transfer of Murderer Alloway

My husband and I were horrified when we picked up the morning paper and there, looming out at us, was this article about Ed Alloway, a man who murdered seven people at Cal State Fullerton University in 1976, saying he had been transferred to a “less restrictive” state hospital.

Not only is it “less restrictive,” but it is only a few miles from all the relatives and families of the victims. What is happening to the courts and the justice system? We were not notified of this happening, and to read about it in the morning paper is really quite a shock. This is especially true when your daughter was one of the victims!

I cannot understand how “they” (the doctors that decide Alloway’s sanity) can even decide something so complicated as this. I had met Alloway one morning, just a few months prior to the day he decided to walk in and murder all these people, and he was as sane and rational as anyone can be in this day and age. Who is to say that at any given time he may just get up some morning and decide some other innocent people should die?

Just as one of the other people said in your article, the lives of seven victims’ relatives and families have been destroyed, and now to have to live with this latest development, and to know that this man is living this close to us, is really devastating.

I really believe that the people who decide such issues as this should be forced to undergo psychiatric evaluation themselves before they are allowed to make such important decisions.

HELEN PAULSEN

Anaheim