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Robert Durst killed at least 3 people and completely avoided justice because he was rich, at least until he outed himself on camera. There's a documentary on Hulu called The Jinx
Quite a few eventually get released, Wikipedia has a long list of serial killers, just search that list for the word "released":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_country
The only one I could find was Franz Schmidt who killed three people between 1957 and 1983. Was released in 2003 and died in 2013.
I asume you mean "in the USA"? I mean, there are many countries in which life sentence isn't a thing.
I asume you mean "in the USA"? I mean, there are many countries in which life sentence isn't a thing.
Probably more than will ever be known.
One of the creepiest kinds of murders that I've read about or watched on TV shows was the random murder. A murder where a killer just randomly kills someone in a random part of the country for no reason. The murderer just goes into a town or city they've never been to before, commits a murder, leaves and never returns. The murderer can leave traces and clues but none if would be connected to anyone or anything in the area .... no motive, no reason, no connection, no witnesses, no nothing .... just a murderer who kills someone for no reason and disappears ... and is capable of doing it again and again without ever being discovered.
Fascinating and frightening.
https://time.com/7176342/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-pardon-war-crimes-military/
at least two of these dudes fit the bill
Only two convicted murders but one of them was her own sister, Karla Homolka served 12 years and got out in 2005.
Damm she looks so out of it. Thats what killing does to a MFer
Her and her husband were sick af. It's good they got caught (relatively) early into their thing, they almost certainly would've continued on with that shit indefinitely if they could've.
As far as I know, Garth Brooks has never been arrested.
The singer?
Yes. He's never disclosed where the bodies are, so there's never been enough physical evidence for an arrest.
Are we talking about the same person?
He’s probably killed 200 to 300 people in his life.
I would add an addendum that they’re 3 separate murders cases and not a single event.
I see we got the killing expert over here
I don’t immediately know what in particular transitions someone from killer to “serial” killer.
But I could see if it was someone who wiped out a van of people or a husband coming back home to his wife cheating with a couple and murdering them being potentially released after a long sentence.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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