One of the most fundamental concepts in the criminal justice system is that of recidivism, a formally incarcerated person’s relapse into criminal behavior. The rates vary from crime to crime, but the sad truth is that many murderers who were released from jail turned around and committed crimes on parole. This list looks at some of those sick, and disgusting crimes committed after murderers were given a new lease on life. Some of the killers in these stories seem to be a product of the prison cycle that refuses to allows ex-convicts to escape the Groundhog Day of crime and drug abuse they’re stuck in. But most of the terrifying tales are simply the stories of murderers who couldn’t bring themselves to live a normal life. Prepare to cover your eyes as you read these stories of paroled murderers who were freed only to kill again.
This list of parolees who murdered is quite astounding. They aren’t from one country, of one race or creed, but they were all imprisoned for long periods of time, and most of them were allowed back into society after the death penalty was thrown out, allowing the convicts to be paroled. One of the eerie similarities in all of the cases on this list of inmates who murdered when they were released is how quickly each ex-con murdered someone. Some waited days, some a few months, but the longest hold out in all of these stories is only a couple of years. If this list of parolees who were freed only to murder again doesn’t make you lose faith in the human race, you’re a saint.
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Arthur Shawcross
The Genesee River Killer originally went to prison for raping and killing two children in 1972. After he was released from prison in 1987, Shawcross went on a year and a half long killing spree that resulted in 12 deaths and stretched across two counties. This time he was sentenced to 250 years to life in prison, and died of a heart attack in 2008.
David Edward Maust
While stationed in Germany, Maust killed a 13-year-old boy and was court-martialed, ultimately convicted of manslaughter and larceny. After being released, Maust stabbed a friend in his sleep, drowned a 15 year old in a quarry, beat a friend with a lead pipe, and strangled three teens, attempting to bury them under his home in a style similar to John Wayne Gacy.
Howard Allen
In 1974, Howard Allen beat an 85-year-old woman to death in her home during a robbery, but he was paroled in 1985. Two years later he committed a string of violent assaults against the elderly that culminated in the murder of Ernestine Griffin, whom he murdered with kitchen knives and a toaster in her home while attempting to purchase a car.
Kenneth McDuff
Kenneth McDuff brutally raped and murdered three teenagers, one with a broomstick. McDuff received three death sentences, but was released after 11 years. Allegedly, three days after his release he began to kill again in the Waco and Temple, TX areas before moving to Kansas City, where he was arrested for the murder of multiple prostitutes.
Desmond Lee
After spending 14 years in jai for murdering a woman in 1989, Desmond Lee killed his lover by breaking his voice box and a bone in his neck. He then maxed out his lover's credit cards before dumping the body in the moors. During the trial, Lee said that he accidentally killed the man during sex while reaching for poppers.
Dwain Little
Dwain Little was only 17 years old when he murdered Orlay Fipps, a 15-year-old girl in 1964. He received three consecutive life terms, but was paroled in 1974 - the same year that he murdered the entire Cowden family while they were on a camping trip. Despite overwhelming evidence pointing to Little, he never confessed to their murder. However, in 1980 he was convicting for raping a woman in Tigard, OR and his parole was revoked.
Arthur J. Bomar Jr.
Arthur J. Bomar Jr. is a repeat offender who was in and out of the justice system multiple times. After being paroled from a Nevada prison in 1990 following a second-degree murder conviction, he may have been in involved in three murders that occurred in Pennsylvania. Then, in 1996, he used a fake police badge to stop a star lacrosse player on the Interstate and brutally murder her. After he was finally caught in 1997, Bomar was charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, rape and abuse of corpse, and was formally sentenced to death by legal injection.
Andrew Dawson
Andrew Dawson, a killer from Derbyshire, England, originally went to prison for killing a 91 year old man, but was given a chance to turn his life around in 2011. Instead, Dawson stabbed two men to death in their respective apartments and left their bodies to rot.
Steven Pratt
Two days after being released from prison for shooting and killing his next door neighbor in 1984, Steven Pratt beat his mother to death during an argument.
George Johnson
Back in 1986, George Johnson and a friend followed a gay man home and stabbed him to death with a pair of scissors and a knife - all over £3. 17 years later he was released and almost immediately picked up a nasty crack and heroin habit. In order to get the bread he needed to buy drugs, he beat an 89-year-old widow to death over £25 and two items of jewelry. He was later apprehended and sentenced to a life behind bars.