Within the next 72 hours, 60-year-old Brooks Bellay is expected to be released from Martin County Jail, after killing a young ...

A hearing is scheduled today for Brooks Bellay, who was convicted of killing a 4-year-old girl in 1979, to determine his release from prison.

Brooks Bellay, who spent more than four decades behind bars for the 1979 murder of a 4-year-old girl, will soon walk free after a judge granted his release under Florida’s juvenile resentencing laws.

Under Florida’s juvenile sentencing laws, a minor convicted of murder faces a prison term of 40 years up to life, then review after 25 years.

A sex offender was sentenced to life in federal prison Friday after thousands of explicit messages with a Martin County teen were uncovered.

Detectives found 6,000 pounds of palmetto berries and seized evidence including journals that listed potential other locations for the plants.