Photos: 33 years after she killed her former lover, Robin Farris is released from prison to an emotional family reunion

By Hart Van Denburg
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Holding hands with her weeping daughter Janelle Elrod of Colorado Springs, Robin Farris, left, walks out of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility on April 4, 2023. Convicted of murdering her former lover Beatrice King in February 1990, Farris was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for at least 40 years. Just before Christmas last year, Gov. Jared Polis gave her a shot at parole about eight years early.

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Robin Farris, holding a box and envelope containing all her life;’s possessions, waits for security doors to open at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023. Waiting on the other side were her daughter, two grandchildren , two cousins and the two attorney’s who worked for her release.
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Robin Farris, waves to family and friends while signing out of the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023. Convicted of murdering her former lover Beatrice King in February 1990, she was being released on parole about eight years early.
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A prison ID card and a cardboard box and envelope containing all of Robin Farris’s possessions, in the waiting area at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023.
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Robin Farris, center, smiles for a selfie with the two attorney’s who worked for her release from prison at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023. At left, Kristen Nelson, and Risa Wolf-Smith.
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Robin Farris is overcome with emotion after being released on parole at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023, about eight years earlier than expected after being sentenced in the murder of her former lover Beatrice King in 1990.
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“You are beautiful, beautiful!” Robin Farris, at right, declares to her daughter Janelle Elrod of Colorado Springs, as Janelle cries in delight at finally being able to see and hold her mother in person after more than 30 years in the waiting area of at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023.
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Robin Farris holds her weeping daughter Janelle Elrod of Colorado Springs, in the waiting area of at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023. Elrod was a child when her mother was convicted of murder in 1990 and sent to prison.
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Attorney Risa Wolf-Smith embraces an overcome Janelle Elrod of Colorado Springs, as Elrod’s mother Robin Farris, behind at right, is released on parole about eight years early from the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023. Wolf-Smith and fellow attorney Kristen Nelson worked for Farris’s release.
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As attorney Kristen Nelson, right, looks on, Janelle Elrod of Colorado Springs shrieks in delight at the sight of her mother Robin Farris being released from the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023. Elrod’s two children - and Farris’s grandkids - Dominic, 15, and Iyana, 17, are behind.
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Janelle Elrod wipes tears from her eyes as she and her mother Robin Farris, left, walk out of the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023. Convicted of murdering her former lover Beatrice King in February 1990, Farris was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for at least 40 years. Just before Christmas last year, Gov. Jared Polis gave her a shot at parole about eight years early.
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Outside the Denver Women's Correctional Facility on April 5, 2023, Robin Farris holds a bouquet of roses, and the hand of her daughter Janelle Elrod, partially hidden, as Elrod’s two children - and Farris’s grandkids - Dominic, 15, and Iyana, 17, follow behind. Dominic is carrying the cardboard box that contains all over Farris’s possessions from prison Elrod’s two children - and Farris’s grandkids - Dominic, 15, and Iyana, 17, are behind. Holding hands with her weeping daughter Janelle Elrod of Colorado Springs, Robin Farris, left, Convicted of murdering her former lover Beatrice King in February 1990, Farris was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for at least 40 years. Just before Christmas last year, Gov. Jared Polis gave her a shot at parole about eight years early.

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