Georgia officials said a former school and church volunteer who was serving a life sentence for molesting nine boys was killed in a prison altercation earlier this month. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Cesar Pastrana, 33, died March 13 from injuries he sustained in a fight with another inmate at Hancock State Prison in Sparta. …
A California inmate believed to have beaten two other inmates to death with a cane wrote a San Jose newspaper to confess to the killings, saying he warned prison officials that he would attack an inmate soon if he wasn’t transferred to another facility. Jonathan Watson, 41, has not been charged in the deaths of …
Recently-released surveillance footage from an Oklahoma jail appears to show an inmate beg for help for days before he died of pneumonia and sepsis. CBS News reported that the footage shows Terral Ellis Jr., 26, at the Ottawa County Jail in October 2015. Twelve days before his death, Ellis had turned himself in on an …
A forensic pathologist said that burst capillaries located in Jeffrey Epstein’s eyes strongly suggest the jailed pedophile was manually strangled and did not kill himself. In a clip provided to the Daily Mail, former New York City Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Baden revealed during a “Dr. Oz” interview that there were several “red flags” on …
Michelle Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend’s 2014 suicide, will be released from a Massachusetts prison next week for good behavior. WXFT reported that Carter, 22, will be released on January 23 — months ahead of her expected release date in May. Carter began her two-and-a-half-year sentence in February. She …
Federal prosecutors in New York revealed on Thursday that surveillance footage taken from outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell during his first apparent suicide attempt is gone due to a mistake in recordkeeping. According to NBC News, prosecutors said the FBI discovered the error last week while reviewing a copy of the video given to …
A man in Colorado who was arrested on December 13 for allegedly fatally poisoning a 9-year-old girl with chloroform died hours after being found unresponsive in his cell on Monday. On Thursday, the Mesa County Coroner’s Office identified the Mesa County Jail inmate who died this week as Jeffrey Beagley, 34. Beagley was jailed in …
New York prosecutors reportedly said on Wednesday that surveillance footage showing convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s first suicide attempt in July is missing. A lawyer representing ex-cop Nick Tartaglione, who shared a cell with Epstein, 66, at the time of his initial suicide attempt, asked in court to have the footage preserved, according to the New …
One of Southern California’s infamous “Toolbox Killers” died on Friday at San Quentin State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker, 79, died Friday of natural causes, the department said. Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris used implements normally found in a tool box — providing them with their nickname — …
Reporters claimed they spotted ‘steam or smoke’ coming off the side of Lee Hall’s head during his execution
A California inmate who was serving a life sentence for a 1993 murder was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing his cellmate — a transgender woman — after she was housed with him in October 2013. Kern Valley State Prison inmate Miguel Crespo, 48, gagged, tortured, and murdered Carmen Guerrero after just eight hours …
Video released this week shows Jake Patterson, the man accused of kidnapping teenager Jayme Closs and killing her parents, fighting with an inmate who asked him about the case, WBAY in Green Bay, Wisconsin, reported. Patterson is serving a life sentence for the murders of James and Denise Closs in Barron, Wisconsin, and kidnapping their …
