September 16, 1986 - Nikko Jenkins
The ten days Jenkins spent killing in Omaha came just weeks after his release from a decade-long prison term, a timeline that later drew scrutiny to the systems that had supervised and ultimately freed him. He had spent much of his incarceration in solitary confinement and had made documented appeals for psychiatric treatment that went unaddressed. Four people were killed before his arrest, and the case became as much an examination of institutional failure as of the man himself.
From Wikipedia
Nikko Allen Jenkins (sometimes spelled Nicholas on first name; born September 16, 1986) is an American spree killer convicted of four murders, committed in August 2013 over a ten-day period in Omaha, Nebraska. The murders occurred within a month after he had been released from prison after serving 10-and-a-half years of an 18 year sentence for a carjacking and assaults committed in prison. Jenkins was aided by family members in some of the murders and later stated that he had committed the killings at the command of the ancient serpent god Apophis. He was found competent to stand trial, found guilty of the four murders, and was sentenced to death in May 2017.
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