UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - It's been more than three years since New Hartford Police Officer Joseph Corr was shot to death after a jewelry store robbery. On Friday, one of the men charged with his murder appeared again in court - this time, the officer's parents were on hand.

The Corrs looked directly at Marion Pegese as he entered the Oneida County courtroom Friday morning, and Officer Corr's mother - Kathy Corr - said she saw "evil" in his eyes.

According to prosecutors, Marion Pegese, 36, is the mastermind behind not only the robbery of the Lennon's W.B. Wilcox jewelry store on Commercial Drive that later resulted in the death of Officer Corr - but they say he's also the mastermind behind other jewelry store robberies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Pegese was actually extradited from the New Jersey State Prison system because in February he was sentenced to 18 years for his role in a robbery in Freehold, New Jersey.

Prosecutors say Pegese was one of four men who robbed Lennon's W.B. Wilcox on Commercial Drive on February 27, 2006.

Two of the four men took police officers on a chase.

Officer Corr was shot by one of those two behind the Byrne Dairy in Kirkland.

One man - Toussaint Davis - was immediately taken into custody and eventually sentenced in Oneida County Court to 300 years in state prison. The man prosecutors believe shot Officer Corr - Walter Richardson - got away, but was tracked down and killed during a shootout with police near Philadelphia. Prosecutors say Marion Pegese and the fourth man, Robert Ward, were in a separate car. They were both tracked down months later in their hometown on Philadelphia as well.

"You wait each day, then it's a week, then it's a month, then it's a year," said Kathy Corr. "It's like, I'm glad that he's here, so we can get on with things, will it bring closure to me? No."

"It will close out a phase of it," said David Corr, the late officer's father. "But we can never have Joe back."

Pegese is due back in court on July 17.

The fourth suspect, Robert Ward, who was also sentenced recently for his role in the Freehold robbery along with Pegese, is expected to appear in Oneida County Court in about a month.

Prosecutors say they would like to try both men at the same time. That's something the Corrs would like to see happen, so they only have to sit through one more trial...instead of two.