It took the Ohio Adult Parole Authority 20 minutes Tuesday to deny parole to Posteal Laskey Jr., the man who has come to be known as the Cincinnati Strangler.

        Mr. Laskey, 64, has been in prison since 1967 when he was convicted of the murder of Barbara Rose Bowman, a 31-year-old secretary whose battered body was found lying in a Price Hill intersection next to a disabled cab.

        Although he was never officially charged with the six stranglings attributed to the Cincinnati Strangler, police believed they'd caught the strangler because when Mr. Laskey was imprisoned the killings stopped.

        Tuesday's hearing took place at the Orient Correctional Institution, where Mr. Laskey is incarcerated.

        A year of stranglings attributed to the Cincinnati Strangler started in 1965. Six women were strangled and most had also been sexually assaulted.

        Ms. Bowman's murder, which happened Aug. 14, 1966, was slightly different from those offenses. She'd been stabbed multiple times in the neck and her ankle had been broken. It was believed Mr. Laskey had run her down with the cab and then fled.

        According to a coroner's report, she had not been raped.

        Parole board officials used a ranking system to gauge whether Mr. Laskey, whose health is failing, deserved parole.

        Mr. Laskey's offense was considered the worst and out of a possible 13 points, he was scored at 13, officials said.

        As for his risk to the public, out of a possible 8 points, Mr. Laskey was scored at a 5.

        His next parole hearing will be February 2007.

        Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen credited the more than 400 letters and e-mails his office received with helping to sway the parole board Tuesday to keep Mr. Laskey in prison.

        Letters from as far way as Arizona, California, and London, England, were received. Not one of the letters received by the prosecutor's office favored Mr. Laskey's release, Mr. Allen said.

        E-mail mmccain@enquirer.com
       

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