Stephen Flemmi denied compassionate release in Florida; parole date set for 2218

A Florida parole board has denied serial killer Stephen Flemmi’s bid for a compassionate release and set his parole date for the year 2218.

His next review was also pushed back seven years, to when he will be 93 years old.

The murders he’s linked to in Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Florida were called “horrific and horrifying” during his Wednesday morning hearing with a loved one of a victim saying Flemmi is a “modern-day Charles Manson.”

The Florida Commission on Offender Review didn’t say much once everyone was done talking, but they did agree Flemmi has a total of 2,680 months to serve. They set his parole for May 4, 2218. That alone sent a clear message.

The 87-year-old Flemmi is locked up in a secret location after agreeing to testify against fellow Boston mobsters, especially the late James “Whitey” Bulger. He did not speak at the hearing.

But a daughter did, calling in to say he’s become a “model prisoner” who can “speak several languages.”

“A guard even called him a peacemaker,” the daughter, Jeanette Benedetti, added. “He’s an avid painter. A model citizen. I’ve seen a big change in my father.”

She added he’s “remorseful” about the 50 murders he’s admitted to being linked to. She added he wants to see the families of those he killed to make amends.

The Florida commissioners, however, didn’t budge. Instead, they calculated the months Flemmi must serve for first-degree murder, illegal possession of a machine gun, illegal possession of a shotgun, silencers, money laundering and conspiracy.

“He ruined more families than you can imagine,” said Steve Davis, calling in from Boston and adding Flemmi killed his sister, Debra, and “ripped the teeth out of” her mouth after “strangling her.” Davis said Flemmi is also linked to his brother’s prison killing.

“The guy is a vicious, vicious murderer,” Davis added. “He killed his own stepdaughter. Let him die there. He is no good. … I wouldn’t let him back to Massachusetts. Others probably want to get even — me being one of them.”

Davis apologized for being bitter, but it’s been a long time alone without his sister and brother to grow old with. Flemmi — once Bulger’s hitman with the ominous nickname “The Rifleman” for his ruthless exploits in the Korean War and back in Boston — can at least live on behind bars.

It was all part of a morning filled with murderers and pedophiles seeking transfers or release from Florida prisons.

Flemmi’s case was number 20, but before he was up others testified over the phone on convicts who “did every imaginable vile act” or murdered a 71-year-old “with a hammer, knife, and barbecue fork.”

Another con “came in with guns a-blazing … all over drugs.”

Still another, a mom said, “sexually molested my 3-year-old daughter.”

All of the kin added one after another is was a “horrible thing” an “awful thing” done to their loved ones.

Davis, in an impassioned appeal, said he still hurts today. Flemmi, he told the board, “doesn’t even deserve to breathe.”