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

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

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I see we got the killing expert over here

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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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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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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 think that’s necessarily a safe conclusion to leap to

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

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The singer?

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

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Are we talking about the same person?

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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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