News Home / Criminal Justice Mar 28, 2026 Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Marvin Mutch (center) reconnects with attorneys Michael Snedekker (left) and Susan Rutberg, who helped him in his decades-long fight for parole, at a KQED screening of “The Trials of Marvin Mutch” on June 1, 2017. (Alain McLaughlin/KQED) Mutch, an 18-year-old security guard at the time, said law enforcement targeted him for the murder because he was a delinquent kid who had spent time in foster care.