Two-time killer admits to murder of child molester in Norfolk prison

9-16-2016 Massachusetts:

DEDHAM -- A lifer at the state prison in Norfolk, already convicted of killing one woman in 1986 and another in 1995, stopped his third murder trial on Thursday to plead guilty to killing a fellow inmate in 2011.

Christopher Fletcher, 55, said he beat convicted child molester Richard Silva to death with a rock because he was close to his release date and he believed the 64-year-old inmate would assault children again.

Fletcher admitted to second-degree murder on the third day of his trial in Norfolk Superior Court. He was sentenced -- for the third time -- to life.

Fletcher was serving a life sentence without parole for the 1995 murder of Elizabeth Salsbury, 48, in Lunenberg. While in prison, he admitted to the 1986 murder of Peggy Sue Cavillo, 24, in Lancaster. ..Source.. by The Patriot Ledger

Widow seeks damages in eldery inmate’s ‘brutal’ killing

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8-6-15 California:

A Santa Fe woman is suing the federal government over the beating death of her 72-year-old husband in a California prison after he was convicted on child pornography charges.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, says prison officials are to blame for putting retired Wall Street attorney Robert A. Warren in a communal cell at the Victorville, Calif., prison with another inmate whom they knew was a danger to him.

A judge in February 2011 sentenced Warren to five years in prison. The lawsuit, which also described him as a university instructor, philanthropist and author, says he was killed on Dec. 29, 2011.

In his plea agreement, Warren had admitted to receiving a video clip online of a man sexually assaulting a prepubescent female who was tied up with a rope and to having on his computer 2,621 images and 26 videos depicting child pornography.

Carol H. Warren says in her complaint that a forensic psychologist concluded that Warren was a good candidate for outpatient treatment because he was amendable to treatment, had no history of violence, sexual or otherwise, and was “lacking many of the historic behavior problems that are associated with re-offenders.”

Inmate to stand trial for murder

7-22-2014 Pennsylvania:

Lawrence Peterson, 44, who is accused of beating his cellmate to death at SCI Houtzdale, had all charges bound over for court following a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge James Hawkins yesterday at the Clearfield County Courthouse.

Peterson is accused of killing William Keitel, 59, in the cell they shared in the F-Block of SCI Houtzdale on Aug. 2, 2013.

Peterson is charged with criminal homicide, murder in the first degree, murder in the third degree, aggravated assault, involuntary manslaughter, and recklessly endangering another person.

Under direct questioning by Clearfield County District Attorney William Shaw Jr., Corrections Officer Duane Hughes testified that on Aug. 2 at approximately 1 p.m. he let Keitel back into his cell after Keitel had finished his shift working in the prison laundry room.

Shortly afterward he heard some inmates yell, "Cell 42, he's killing him." Hughes said he and Sgt. Adam Miles responded to cell 42.

He said it took them about a minute to arrive and through the windows on the cell door, Hughes said he could see Peterson sitting on the lower bunk with Keitel lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

Marysville rape suspect dies after jail beating

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4-13-2014 Ohio:

A Marysville man accused of rape died on Friday from injuries suffered in an April 5 beating by other inmates at the Tri-County Regional Jail in Champaign County.

Authorities have released little information about the fight involving 39-year-old David Piersol on April 5, except to say that he was in the general population with more than a dozen other inmates, not in an isolated cell.

Piersol died at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, where he had been in critical condition and on life support since the attack, officials said.

The jail, in Mechanicsburg in Champaign County, houses inmates from Champaign, Madison and Union counties. Piersol was in custody out of a Union County case.