Parole board ordered to postpone hearing for OC murderer

An Orange County Superior Court judge on Thursday, Aug. 2, ordered the state to delay the parole hearing of a man convicted of killing his friend by beating him and throwing him out of an airplane.
The Board of Parole Hearings wanted to move up by a year the hearing for Lawrence Rayborn Cowell, who was convicted in 1983 of murdering 27-year-old Scott Campbell by throwing him out of a Cessna and into the ocean so he could steal Campbell’s sports car. Cowell is serving a 25 ye