A Greater Cincinnati family is gathering signatures for a petition to keep a convicted killer in jail.

Adrian Williams was sentenced to 50 years in prison after kidnapping and killing three-year-old Jason Evers.

Williams has already served 42 years of his sentence, and he will be eligible for parole in December.

“This gentleman–I shouldn’t even call him that–this guy, messed up our entire family,” said Jason Evers’ cousin. “He changed our family for what he did.”

Don Evers, Jason’s uncle, recalls the day Jason died in 1982 as if it were yesterday.

“Three years old he was taken from the YMCA which was like three doors down from their house,” Don recalls. “All the kids went there and played.”

According to Jason’s father, Bob Evers, Williams called the next day claiming Jason was alive and demanding a ransom, but then vanished for weeks, while the Evers family continued to search for Jason.

“We were within 20 feet when we were searching for him,” Don recalled. “Six weeks we searched for him, his body because we knew something happened to him.”

According to Bob, it took 43 days before Williams reached out again.

“He called again, for another ransom,” Bob told me. “The FBI dressed up as Firestone workers in Norwood. He instructed me to put the money in the dumpster. “The FBI gave me the bait money.”

Williams was apprehended and eventually convicted of kidnapping and involuntary manslaughter. Jason’s body was discovered in a shallow grave near the playground at the Powel Crosley YMCA. Bob is now left with only a small lock of his son’s hair.

“This is all I have left of Jason.” “I scraped this off the slabs of rocks he was buried under,” Bob explained. “I got the life sentence, Williams needs to at least do his 50 years.”

To ensure Williams serves his full sentence, the Evers family is collecting signatures and letters to petition the parole board each time he is up for parole.

“Every five years, we must relive it. “It stays with you,” Bob said. “We have to relive it every time we have to do this petition.”

Bob says letters to the parole board and petition signatures are due by November 30th.

“I won’t stop fighting,” Jason’s cousin declared. “There’s always going to be somebody in this family who’s going to fight.”

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