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I asume you mean "in the USA"? I mean, there are many countries in which life sentence isn't a thing.
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.
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
Durst was convicted of one murder and died in prison in 2020
I asume you mean "in the USA"? I mean, there are many countries in which life sentence isn't a thing.
I know in counties like Colombia, Brazil and Norway. I did some research and I found out about the cases of Arnfinn Nesset in Norway who killed at least 22 people in the early 80s and was released in 2004. Abel Mikaelsen Klemmensen in Greenland who killed 7 people at a party in 1989 and was released in 2015 and Australian criminal Berwyn Rees who was paroled in 2019 after serving 39 years in prison for killing three people including a police officer between 1977-1981. British Child killer Simon Smith who murdered three of his infant children between 1993-and-1997 who despite being sentence to a whole life term later applied against this sentence and it was reduced to 24 years-to-life and was released in 2020. Teenage serial killer Warren Harris in America who killed four people in the 1970s and given parole in 2024.
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.
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.
I don't mean killers who haven't been caught yet I mean people who were convinced of there crimes and later released.
https://time.com/7176342/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-pardon-war-crimes-military/
at least two of these dudes fit the bill
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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