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Has there ever been a case where someone convicted of three or more murders was released from prison?

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Only two convicted murders but one of them was her own sister, Karla Homolka served 12 years and got out in 2005.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Damm she looks so out of it. Thats what killing does to a MFer

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

As far as I know, Garth Brooks has never been arrested.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes. He's never disclosed where the bodies are, so there's never been enough physical evidence for an arrest.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Are we talking about the same person?

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago

He’s probably killed 200 to 300 people in his life.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I would add an addendum that they’re 3 separate murders cases and not a single event.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I see we got the killing expert over here

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 points 4 hours ago

I don’t immediately know what in particular transitions someone from killer to β€œserial” 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.