State Senator Cathleen Galgiani was joined Monday in Sacramento by the Ranzo family, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson and Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager to implore the Governor to reverse the decision by the Parole Board to grant parole to Jeffrey Allen Maria. On June 25, 1979 Jeffrey Allen Maria was convicted of the murder and rape of Phil and Kathy Ranzo. Maria and his accomplices Marty Don Spears, Ronald Ray Anderson, and Darren Lee, deliberately preyed upon the Ranzos in a home invasion robbery and exploited the willingness of the young couple to help people they thought had run out of gas.