Frankly, I don't think "Sorry about all this. Call me when you get a chance" would make much headway over stabbing someone 7 times. If he just wanted to make contact with his daughter, he should have gone through legal channels. Even at that, if I were that girl's mother, I wouldn't want him to come within a mile of my child. Who knows whether he's gotten himself a nice new knife. That was a horrific crime and Johnson was terminally stupid in his attempt to contact his victim. Yeah, the dude should go back to jail.
And yes, I have a personal issue with this. I was involved with a highly abusive man, and I finally called the police on him and he was given 90 days in the county jail and I was granted a restraining order against him. The fool tried to call me from jail to get me to drop the charges. Not bloodly likely after the things he had done. I hung up on him and reported him to the sheriff immediently. The judge gave him another 10 days for that little caper.
