Rock was taken off a bus in Saratoga the day after the murder and confessed to police.

He had been released from a mental hospital 10 days before Laura was murdered.

Documents from the hospital said he was a danger to himself and others. He had been sent to the mental hospital for observation after trying to abduct an 11-year-old girl in Saratoga.

Rock was found unfit to stand trial and was institutionalized until 1972, when he stood trial without a jury before the late Judge Robert Feinberg.

Feinberg did not buy Rock's plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to life.

WANTS V.A. CARE

Rock, who is now disabled and in a wheelchair, told Parole Board members he would be going to a Veterans Administration facility if he were released.

"It's an institutional transfer," he said.

Members questioned him about whether it would be a secure facility or if he would be able to just leave anytime.

He said it is a voluntary program, but if you try to leave, you are thrown out of the program and sent back to court.

Commissioner Debra Loomis continued, saying, "But still, you could walk out and leave and go wherever you wanted?"

Rock said he didn't know.

PAROLE DENIED

In denying parole for 24 months, the commissioners wrote: "After careful review of the record, this interview and due deliberations, parole is again denied for the following reasons: serious and sexually deviant nature of the circumstances, your instant offense, murder whereby records indicate you abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered a 6-year-old girl.

"During the interview, you demonstrated little remorse and accepted no responsibility for your deviant actions.