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

  • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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

    • SpaceFox:3@lemmy.mlOP
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      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.

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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.

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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.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    52 minutes 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.

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        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.

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        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.