Convicted Killer of 3 Michigan Women Running a Ride Share Service?

Should a Michigan man who was paroled from prison after 48 years for killing 3 women be allowed to run a rideshare service?

Kalamazoo Man Convicted of Killing 3 Women in the 1970s

Brent Koster from the Kalamazoo area was convicted of killing 3 women in 1972 when he was just a teenager.

Koster was only 15 when he partnered with 28-year-old serial killer Danny Ranes to rape and kill 19-year-olds Linda Clark and Claudia Bistrup when the two women who stopped for gas at a Kalamazoo service station Ranes worked at.

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According to the Detroit Free Press, Koster and Ranes raped and killed 18-year-old Pamela Fearnow a month later while she was hitchhiking. Koster was paroled in 2021 while Ranes was released in 2022 after being convicted of killing 4 women.

Convicted Killer of 3 Mi Women Paroled and Running Rideshare Service

You have to admit that is pretty ballsy for a convicted killer who took part in killing one of his victims who was a hitchhiker to offer a cash up-front ride service while posting his calling card on Facebook. I get that once you get released from prison you need to get a job but this doesn't seem like the right job for a man with his past. There's probably a reason he is not working for Lyft or Uber especially when they do background checks of their drivers.

The only good news in this story is that the Michigan Department of Corrections also agrees that Koster running an unregulated rideshare service is not a good idea and had his parole officer put the breaks on the side hustle.