EVANSVILLE — How did a man sentenced to serve decades behind bars in 2012 for terrorizing a Downtown Evansville neighborhood manage to carry out what prosecutors have since described as the targeted killing of an Evansville woman after serving just 13 years of a 35-year sentence?

That's one of many questions dogging Jamerus Parkman's prior victims and the investigators who assumed he would spend the majority of his sentence for a years-long spate of burglaries and attempted rapes within the confines of an Indiana prison.

Parkman, whom Indiana Department of Corrections records descrive as a "sexually violent predator," was released back to Evansville under parole supervision in February, court records show, after serving less than 40% of his prison sentence. Victims of the earlier burglar

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