I actually wrote that term and then decided not to put it in my comment because I didn’t want to detract from my point about him being a murderer, but you’re absolutely right. There’s something really wrong about this entire case.
I get a couple of Canadian channels, and they went bananas when Karla Homolka (she set her own teen sister up to be raped & murdered by her husband) was released from prison after a relatively short incarceration, thanks to her plea deal to testify against her husband (boyfriend?).