Serial killers who escaped from custody – Murder is easily one of the most terrifying crimes that one human can commit against another. So it’s understandable that murderers should be securely locked away in prison.
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Yet sometimes these people do get out. And while not all of them were serial killers before they broke out, they certainly were by the time they were recaptured.
10. Richard Caputo
Yet sometimes these people do get out. And while not all of them were serial killers before they broke out, they certainly were by the time they were recaptured.
In 1971, Richard Caputo stabbed his girlfriend, Natalie Brown, to death. After he was arrested, it was ruled that he wasn’t mentally competent to stand trial. He was committed to a mental institution where he started a relationship with one of his psychologists, a woman named Judith Becker. Eventually, Caputo was transferred to a minimum-security mental institution where he was given furloughs. On one of those furloughs in October 1974, he strangled Becker and left New York City.
In 1975, Caputo found a new lover in San Francisco. But sadly, her battered body was found later in her apartment. After that, he fled to Mexico City, where he killed his fourth victim in 1977.
Over the next 20 years, Caputo avoided capture, going back and forth from the US to Mexico three times. One time, just before the murder of his fourth victim, he was held at the El Paso border but managed to escape. Eventually, he married a woman and had children with her. He left that family and married another woman, with whom he also had children. Meanwhile, the search for him continued. He was even featured on America’s Most Wanted.
Then, on January 18, 1994, Caputo turned himself in because he was racked with guilt. He confessed to four murders, and police believe that he was responsible for two additional kills as well. Caputo’s lawyers argued that he suffered from multiple personalities, so he wasn’t responsible for the murders. The judge didn’t buy it. Caputo was found guilty and sentenced to 8.5 to 25 years in prison. He died about two years into his sentence in October 1997.
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