Has there ever been a case where someone convicted of three or more murders was released from prison?
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 2017.
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
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.
I don’t think that’s necessarily a safe conclusion to leap to
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.
generally, a serial killer does multiple individual murderers over an extended period. this contrasts with a mass murderer, who kills a bunch of people in a single event, or a spree killer who does multiple killings over a short time span. a serial killer may take a couple years to kill 5 people while a spree killer does it in a weekend, and a mass killer manages it in a few minutes.
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.
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.
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.
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 have would got more attention.
please don’t self-censor on the internet! a rape is a rape
Yeah but I don’t think your allowed to say it on here and I’m not risking my account
Israel Keyes admitted to at least one of these but probably did tens if not hundreds. Had caches across the country of supplies and weapons. He was only eventually caught cause he got sloppy and I think had a body or something on his property at some point. Didn’t admit a lot to the police cause he didn’t want media attention and for his daughter to find out, a lot of information is gleaned from missing persons that coincided with where he happened to be at the time (phone pings, plane tickets, etc), and he traveled a lot.
There’s a long-running podcast detailing what is known about him, called True Crime Bullshit.
Frans Hooijmaijers, Dutch nurse who killed between 5-259 people from 1970-1974. Was originally sentenced to life however this was changed in 1977 to 18 years imprisonment and Hooijmaijers was released in 1987. He died in 2006.
