MINNEAPOLIS - At 84, Phyllis Stebbins is tired of fighting.
"I just would like it to be over with. Keep him in there and give us some peace," she said.
Her daughter Carol Hoffman was murdered in 1980.
A jury convicted Hoffman's husband David for strangling her, dismembering her body and then dumping the remains in Weaver Lake in Maple Grove.
More than 35 years later, the mother is getting ready for another battle.
Department of Corrections Commissioner Tom Roy will hear testimony next week from her and others as he decides if David Hoffman will go free. It will be Hoffman's 5th parole hearing.
"As long as I have any breath left in my body, I will be there," she said.
Hoffman was sentenced in 1980 when 17 years was the mandatory minimum life sentence. It is now 30 years.
"Now he's 69," she said of Hoffman. "But that doesn't make a difference how old he is because he gets mad with a temper he'll kill somebody else."
Commissioner Roy would not talk to KARE 11 on camera, and declined answering specific questions about the case. But a spokesperson wrote in an email, he would consider input "from family members of the victim" as well as "other people impacted by the crime."
Stebbins and her family have started a petition on Change.org demanding Hoffman stay in jail.
"It still miss her every day," she said.