Murderer's Early Release
By: LaTonya Stephens
Updated: August 29, 2007
A Pike county family torn apart by murder may soon face one of the men responsible.
Convicted murderer Richard Dillon is scheduled to be released from Indiana Department of Corrections in two days.
The family says they were told that Dillon would never get out of jail.
But after serving only 26 years Dillon who killed Sharon Cannons grandmother Mary Hilborn and her husband William Hilborn..... will get out.
The family says thats too small a price to pay for two precious lives.
Cannon says the whole family is just in shock.
They say they were told that hes coming back to live in the area and they fear running into him.
Jay R. Thompson is the other man convicted in the murders.
He is currently serving 120 years but is seeking a new trial.
