Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
Victim’s child fights inmate’s parole bid
Perkins’ mother was murdered, her body dismembered
Oregon resident Michelle Perkins’ 11-year fight for justice brought her back to Las Vegas last week. Perkins’ biological mother, Jan Sites, was murdered by her husband in 2005, before Perkins had a chance to meet her. Now Perkins is on a mission to keep the killer locked up.
She begged Nevada Parole Board members Wednesday afternoon to deny parole for William Sites, now 78. Perkins, who was adopted as an infant, had only begun to form a relationship with her mother before her death.
“My life has changed dramatically since inmate Sites murdered my mother,” she told the Parole Board.
Sites killed his 60-year-old wife, dismembered her body and dumped the remains in trash bins throughout his apartment complex.
He told police his wife had been belittling him during an argument. He said she tried to attack him with a knife, but he pushed her, and her head hit a statue, causing her to bleed to death.
In another interview, he told police he had hit her on the head at least once with a hammer he had pulled from under the bed.
Perkins said Wednesday she learned he had killed her mother while she sat in a recliner and left her corpse there for three days. Sites then bought a hacksaw with his wife’s debit card at Home Depot and cut up her body in the hallway bathroom. He bagged the body parts, then scattered them in trash bins as he walked their dog Molly.
When Parole Board Chairwoman Connie Bisbee asked Sites why he murdered his wife in a “horribly violent way,” he said he was “a very angry, very introverted, very emotionally immature individual.”
Sites, who participated in the videoconferenced hearing from the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City, told the board he now