How did they miss the beard? It's fairly prominent.
Posted on 07/08/2009 10:04:27 AM PDT by meandog
The man who took five lives in six days in a small Cherokee County town should have been in jail, according to South Carolina officials who have examined his criminal record.
Patrick Tracy Burris, who allegedly murdered five Gaffney residents ranging in age from 15 to 83, was a habitual felon with a 25-page rap sheet that included an eight year stint in North Carolina prison.
Police say Burris should have never been released from prison, and now they are demanding answers.
“When you have that many crimes you shouldn’t get parole,” said South Carolina Law Enforcement Chief Reggie Lloyd Tuesday. “I just think our entire system has to get serious about these types of offenders.”
The long list of crimes for the intimidating 6-foot-5 inch, 250 pound Burris — who was killed by police Monday in Gastonia, N.C. — began with blackmail in 1989 and escalated to the tragic Gaffney murders.
He was arrested more than 30 times in North Carolina alone with other convictions in Florida, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.
He was well known to authorities as a bully; so fierce to his victims was he that one elderly man refused to testify against him in an extortion case for fear of retaliation.
Records show that most of Burris’ convictions involved stealing from homes and businesses and forging checks. But over time, the crimes augmented to robbery and assault.
The Gaffney killings began on June 27 when 63-year-old peach farmer Kline Cash was killed. Four days later, Hazel Linder, 83, and her daughter Gena Linder Parker, 50, were found dead. The next day, Stephen Tyler and his 15-year-old daughter Abby were killed while closing the family furniture store.
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The problem throughout society is the abasence of liability for the judicial system.
At least the police in North Carolina helped make up for their error by shooting him as he was "Resisting Arrest". I think our cops should help ease the burden on our courts and jails by taking care of the criminals who are "Resisting Arrest" a lot more often.
Photo of creep here
http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/south_carolina/article/serial_killer_caught_who_is_patrick_tracy_burris/16846/
Our system sucketh.
Another liberal with three names.
But kudos to the cops that brought some justice and hopefully peace to the victim's families along with the added bonus of saving money for a trial. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Certainly another thug, something the US seems to have no shortage of these days.
The legal system had better go back to its job of protecting innocent citizens. I’ve had enough of this crap. Lock ‘em up and, if necessary, keep them locked up. Government has an obligation to the public.
How did they miss the beard? It's fairly prominent.
Racially he appears to be a lot like someone in the white hut. I assume if he was white the media would have referred to him as a “white serial killer.”
25 page rap sheet - unreal.
At least he didn’t drive a white van....
Routinely releasing career criminals onto the streets is one of the forms of government tyranny that our Second Amendment rights are designed to protect us from. People need to employ these rights more readily, and drive politicians out of office when they enable this form of tyranny and/or enable the harassment and prosecution of citizens who use their Second Amendment rights to deal with it.
Well, we have some in the White House now.
Wouldn’t know a thing about that.
Oh, and J Edgar Hoover was a real sweetie as well.
Gotta love those Feds and their little sniffers.....
You don’t know that we have thugs in the White House? Where have you been since November?
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