{"id":139370,"date":"2026-01-18T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:35:09","slug":"tiburon-rapist-rejected-in-bid-for-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/139370\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiburon rapist rejected in bid for parole"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man sentenced for repeatedly raping a Tiburon woman after tying her up in her apartment in 1998 has been denied parole for at least five years.<\/p>\n

Frederick Sidney Laird, 65, committed the crimes in 1998 after responding to a newspaper ad the woman had placed for a roommate. As the 25-year-old woman was showing him the apartment, he punched her, bound her with duct tape and raped her while holding a knife to her throat, authorities said.<\/p>\n

After raping the victim several times, Laird dragged her into a closet, ate food from her kitchen and stole her car, the prosecution said. The woman eventually freed herself.<\/p>\n

Police arrested Laird several days later outside a bar in Oceanside, San Diego County.<\/p>\n

The Marin County District Attorney\u2019s Office charged Laird with 12 felonies, including four counts of rape. The prosecution sought a lengthy sentence under the \u201cthree strikes law\u201d because of Laird\u2019s criminal record, which included kidnapping and vehicle theft.<\/p>\n

The case went to trial the following year. The evidence included a videotaped confession during an interview with investigators.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did rape her,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a pretty violent struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laird pleaded guilty shortly after the trial started and before the victim\u2019s testimony. He admitted to 10 felonies.<\/p>\n

A judge sentenced him to 251 years in state prison. In 2023, Laird sought a resentencing under a change in state law that allowed reduced terms for older inmates who had continuously served certain periods of time in prison.<\/p>\n

Laird had his first parole hearing on Jan. 7 and received the five-year denial, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

Laird is incarcerated at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran.<\/p>\n

\"FrederickFrederick Sidney Laird on Jan. 24, 2025. He was sentenced to 251 years in state prison for raping a woman in Tiburon in 1998. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man sentenced for repeatedly raping a Tiburon woman after tying her up in her apartment in 1998…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,723,12119,181,23,992,70576,100,180,993,266,3480,121,123,122,31023],"class_list":{"0":"post-139370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-crime-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-marin-county","14":"tag-marin-county-superior-court","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newsletter","17":"tag-north-bay","18":"tag-northern-california","19":"tag-prisons","20":"tag-sacramento","21":"tag-sacramento-headlines","22":"tag-sacramento-news","23":"tag-tiburon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}