Joan Porco: A Day In The Life Of A [Job Title]

He's free on bail. Christopher porco, 22, is accused of attacking his parents with an ax as they slept in their home in 2004. He allegedly killed his father and put his mother into a coma in what appears to have been the drastic act of a desperate young man in deep financial difficulty. Porco, 23, is charged with the nov. 15, 2004, attack that killed his father, law clerk peter porco, 52, and left joan with disfigurement and partial blindness.

Porco, whos now 29, is serving 50 years in upstate danemora prison. He was convicted, in 2006, of axing his father, peter, to death and severely maiming his mother, joan, in the same attack. Joan porco, who suffered debilitating head injuries in the brutal ax attack that killed her husband, peter, is asking authorities to stop pursuing her son as a suspect.