He served his sentence.
What bothers me is that he chose the classroom as a career.
Though he's done nothing untoward in that career (or Millikin would not have continued to employ him for 27 years) a better position for him might have been - and with the same major - something in the field of research, with a lab a better choice of surrounding.
He was 15.
I think he's been rather brilliant, to rebound from that fatal circumstance.
He's not burdened the court system further. As for the "...but we don't know" argument in re: whether certain illegal acts might have been committed after his release, the burden of proof rests with the one making it. Ultimately it's a logical fallacy to assume that he has, or must have.
It's an imperfect system but one must trust LE to apprehend wrong-doers if they commit illegal acts.
And the jury system and the courts to punish accordingly. Perhaps in 1968 they did not. But that was the court's decision.
I'll keep checking MSM to see if anything else turns up about him, and it might.
Good for him! I hope he stands alone! If I had murdered my parents? I would look over my back the rest of my life, because you could bank my siblings would do a little hunting of their own. AS THEY SHOULD!!!
more at the linkDECATUR The classroom was buzzing with nervous first-day chatter when the pony-tailed and bearded 61-year-old professor walked in.
Thats when the room fell into a chilling silence, Millikin University freshman Alex Arocha recalled Monday afternoon after Professor James St. James taught his first class since he was unmasked this summer as a teenage killer.
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But Arocha said she thought he handled his first day back in the classroom with grace and poise.
There was one moment that will likely linger in the memory, though, she said.
When the professor started talking about psychotic psychology, everyone kind of looked at each other, she said, raising her eyebrows.
My final comment (as someone who has worked with and is CLOSELY related to two sociopaths): Perhaps the reason he has never killed again is that he no longer had anyone get in his way or try to stifle him (to the degree that his family did). It appear to me that he killed to eliminate people who got in the way of his plans / desires. Maybe no one has since then.