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

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    11 days ago

    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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      10 days 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 2017.

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        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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    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

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      It sounds like he squealed a lot to get free. I’m surprised he hasn’t been taken down as a result of this

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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 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.

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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.

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          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.

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

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        11 days ago

        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.

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          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.

          https://youtu.be/uUgXr6nVqB8

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      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.