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Notorious "Friday the 13th" Killer Freed After 45 Years in Prison
12 Oct
Summary
- David McGreavy, the "Friday the 13th" killer, released in 2018
- Murdered 3 children in 1973, sentenced to life but served 45 years
- Victim's mother "doesn't support or understand" his early release
On April 13, 1973, David McGreavy, then 21 years old, committed a horrific crime that would earn him the moniker "Friday the 13th" killer. He brutally murdered Elsie Urry's three children - Paul, 4, Dawn, 2, and Samantha, 9 months - in their Worcester, England home. McGreavy, who had been living with the family and regularly babysitting the children, strangled Paul, cut Dawn's throat, and inflicted a compound fracture to Samantha's skull before impaling their bodies on the garden fence.
Despite the severity of his crimes, McGreavy was released from prison in 2018, after serving 45 years of a life sentence. This decision has sparked outrage, particularly from Elsie Urry, the mother of the murdered children. "They said he was going in for life and then they changed it for [a minimum of] 20 years, but he hasn't done 60 years," she told the BBC in 2019. "He took three lives, not just one or two; three."
In the years since his release, McGreavy has been subject to strict parole conditions, including a curfew, GPS tagging, and exclusion zones. However, Urry remains deeply unsatisfied, stating, "It gives me a bit of peace of mind, but it is still not fair he has been released after what he has done."
