Board Rejects Parole for Triple Killer

A parole board, after hearing from a retired San Diego County prosecutor, rejected the parole application of triple killer Joseph Bernard Morse on Thursday, and scheduled his next hearing in five years, the maximum delay permitted. A three-member panel of the Board of Prison Terms decided that Morse was not suitable for parole because he has not cooperated with prison authorities by seeking psychiatric treatment. Morse, 52, has been incarcerated since 1962, when he confessed to murdering his mother and 12-year-old sister. In 1964 he confessed to strangling a fellow San Diego jail inmate.