Wayland Town Crier 8/17/11: Texas board denies parole for Sarah Pryor murder suspect. The former Sherborn resident considered a suspect in Sarah Pryor's murder more than two decades ago will remain in a Texas prison at least five more years. The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole voted to deny parole to John Whirty, said a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It was the ninth time Whirty's case for parole has been reviewed in Texas. The next will be in August 2016, criminal justice spokesman Jason Clark said yesterday. Whirty, 66, denies killing Pryor in 1985, but Massachusetts investigators have called him a prime suspect in the Wayland 9-year-old's death. He has also been called a likely suspect in the disappearance of Stow teen Cathy Malcolmson two months before Pryor's abduction.