Andrea Freese, a former Port Angeles woman convicted two years ago of stabbing to death a 73-year-old man, has completed her prison sentence and is on state community supervision after earning credit for good behavior behind bars.
Freese, now 36, is living in King County.
She was freed from the state’s secured-facility work-release program July 27, state Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis said last week.
Freese’s activities and whereabouts will be monitored under the state community supervision program through Jan. 31, 2016, meaning she will report regularly until then to community supervision personnel and is subject to unannounced visits to her home.
“That’s a pretty long supervision,” Lewis said. “She is considered a high risk to commit a nonviolent crime.”
Sentenced in 2009
Freese was sentenced to 5½ years in prison after a Clallam County Superior Court jury convicted her March 21, 2009, of second-degree manslaughter in the July 28, 2007, death of William Boze, who was letting her stay at his Port Angeles home.
Boze, who walked with a cane and had emphysema and heart disease, had offered Freese temporary shelter two years earlier when he was volunteering at the Dream Center teen facility in Port Angeles.
Superior Court Judge George L. Wood sentenced her April 23, 2009, to twice the standard sentencing range, citing Boze’s vulnerability and Freese’s lack of remorse for stabbing Boze while staying at his west Port Angeles home.
John Hayden, representing Freese, had argued Freese had acted in self-defense after Boze punched and molested her, allegations that were never proven.
Hayden said Freese had been diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder and heard voices.
Freese was expected to serve about 3½ years after factoring in credit for time served, county Prosecuting Attorney Deb Kelly said after Freese was sentenced.
Freese was released from the Washington Corrections Center for Women at Purdy, north of Gig Harbor, in April after serving two years there, then spent three months at Lincoln Park Work Release before going into the state community supervision program, Lewis said.
Lewis said Freese earned credit at Purdy for not committing violent infractions and for not being chemically dependent.
Under work-release, Corrections-supervised individuals work during the day and return at night to a dorm-like facility that’s locked at night.
Not returning to a work-release facility after a day’s work “is considered a prison escape,” Lewis said.
“Only a very small percentage [of inmates], particularly women, get to do work-release, so you have to be doing something right,” Lewis said.
Kelly and Hayden were not available for comment Thursday.
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