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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Not a "known" serial killer, but it wouldn't surprise me if this guy killed more than the one woman he ate and raped (her corpse):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours ago

I asume you mean "in the USA"? I mean, there are many countries in which life sentence isn't a thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Durst was convicted of one murder and died in prison in 2020

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't think that's necessarily a safe conclusion to leap to

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I asume you mean "in the USA"? I mean, there are many countries in which life sentence isn't a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't mean killers who haven't been caught yet I mean people who were convinced of there crimes and later released.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is exactly what I mean ..... just because someone committed one murder and got caught, it doesn't mean that they didn't commit multiple other murders that will never be known about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I know what you mean. I heard about this one guy Edward Surratt. He's pretty mysterious. He was only serving time for grape but admitted in 2021 to murdering multiple people in 70s. Oddly enough I haven't heard much about this guy. I would have thought this would got more attention.

https://youtu.be/uUgXr6nVqB8

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I see we got the killing expert over here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Are we talking about the same person?