How Many Chances Should a Serial Killer Get?
The parole of Colin Pitchfork shows just how hard it is to predict future risk.
5 min readSep 22, 2022
In 1983, twenty-seven-year-old Colin Pitchfork raped and murdered fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann in a small village in Leicestershire county, England. It was his first murder but far from his first offense.