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Why wasn’t Land Park slaying suspect in custody? Prison records, jail protocol raise questions

Why was the suspect in the Sept. 3 slaying of Land Park resident Kate Tibbitts out of custody when she and her two dogs were killed? The 51-year-old parolee had a prison record stretching back to Aug. 2, 1990, when he first entered a California prison for convictions involving cocaine and grand theft.