Cherokee County Serial Killer Was Arrested 15 Days Before Murders

Jail officials in North Carolina say one simple phone call is all it would have taken to keep Patrick Tracy Burris the Cherokee County serial killer behind bars.
But they say the call was never made.

15 days before the first murder Patrick Burris was arrested by his own parole officer for driving without a license.
Over the weekend his parole officer told media in Charlotte that she called the jail later that night asking them to hold onto Burris but they let him go.
But the detention center says the call was never made and they can prove it.

Timeline:

10:30 a.m. Burris drove himself to the parole office which is a violation of parole because he wasn’t supposed to be driving

10:55 his parole officer has him arrested on two counts of driving without a license

4:00 p-m a judge issued a warrant to have him returned to prison for violating parole

10:30 p-m Burris posted two-thousand dollars bond and was released from jail.

The sheriff’s office says the parole officer had eleven and a half hours to call the jail and place a hold on Burris but she never made the call.

According to the Charlotte observer the department of corrections says the parole officer called the jail at 9:40 that night but was told Burris had already been released.

The Lincoln County sheriff’s office says that’s not true.
They say they pulled phone records from that day and the jail never received a call from the parole officer.

Late Monday afternoon a spokesperson for the North Carolina Department of Corrections says the information in the Charlotte Observer is not accurate.
They say they don’t know if the parole officer did or did not call the jail that night
They say they are looking into the situation to determine what she did but at this point he cannot refute any of the claims made by the the jail.

Patrick Burris was released from prison in april after serving almost eight years for several counts of breaking and entering.

In the first six weeks after being released he violated parole six times.
He missed his curfew 5 times and was arrested for driving without a license.
On June 12th a judge issued a warrant to have him returned to prison but as we know that warrant was never served.