, 55, has been approved for parole and is scheduled for release Dec. 12, according to Department of Corrections records.
Reali did not immediately return calls for comment.
Though Reali received a life sentence after being convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the ’90s, Gov. Bill Ritter commuted her sentence in 2011, making her eligible for parole.
Records dating back to Reali’s first attempt at parole show she was because she was still considered a risk. The records cited the violence and severity/circumstances of the 1990 killing in which Reali, then 28, donned camouflage and a ski mask and gunned down her lover’s wife, Dianne Hood, as she was leaving a lupus support meeting in Colorado Springs. Reali testified that Brian Hood persuaded her to kill his wife, claiming it was “God’s plan.”
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