This is the latest coming from the AP:

    Authorities today say a North Carolina parole officer should not be blamed for failing to tell jail officers to keep the suspected South Carolina serial killer behind bars.

    A Corrections Department spokesman said Tuesday parole officer Angela Merrill saw more than two dozen parolees the day Patrick Burris was released from a county jail and she had no evidence to indicate the violent turn his life was about to take.

    Corrections spokesman Keith Acree says the agency is looking into what allowed Burris to get out of jail. Authorities say Burris killed five people between June 27 and July 2 in and around the rural South Carolina community of Gaffney.

    He was shot to death about a week ago by police investigating a burglary complaint in North Carolina.

    So, who is to blame?  The system obviously has problems.  Do parole officers have too much of a workload?  Did Burris play the system?  Questions I’m certain family members of the people killed want answered and corrected.