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

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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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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

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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 2017.

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I’m gonna share a golden case from italy:

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

This man who himself declared committed between 100 and 200 murders (he lost track) got released after 25 years and walks free.

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

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

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

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

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