You guys are going to want to watch till the end because you won’t believe how long the
person at number 1 spent behind bars it’s insane.
Well how's it going you guys I am your host for this one Landon Do Not Sing and welcome
back to another most amazing top 10 video.
You know what, let's just jump right into this video, this is the top 10 scary inmates
who have served the most time in prison.
Starting of this list at number 10, we have Howard Christensen who spent 64 years in prison.
He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
This was after he murdered a teacher back in 1937.
He was only 16 years old at the time of the crime and he didnt do it alone.
A 17 year old was his accomplice but he couldn’t face prison time, so he hung himself in prison
but for Christensen he out waited his prison sentence for a chance to see freedom and it
actually happened for him.
When he was 80 years old and 64 years later his sentence was overturned and he was paroled,
but he passed away 2 years after being free at the age of 82 years old.
Richard Honeck is up next at number 9 on our list.
This is a man who has been in prison since he was 22 years old and spent the next 64
years and 44 days staring at prison bars.
He was sentenced in 1899 for the murder of a former school friend.
When Honeck was in prison he was all over the media and for some reason became very
famous.
He received a mailbag of 2,000 letters including a proposal of marriage.
There was even employment offers.
Is this real life right now?
What is going gon.
In prison he was only allowed 1 letter per week but luckily he was able to spend 64 years
in prison.
That works out to 3,328 letters he was able to open during that span.
Maybe we should have given him more time to be able to read more letters.
Honeck was actually released from prison at the age of 84 and he lived out till 97 years
old.
So he has 13 years of freedom.
Number 8.
We have Clarence Marshall who is known as the person who served the longest time in
prison in Michigan he spent 64 years and 70 days in prison . He was sentenced to life
in prison on one count of armed robbery and another of unarmed assault with intent to
rob and steal.
He was sentenced back in 1952.
In 2012 there was a public hearing to consider his parole.
Well 3 years after that hearing he was released from prison he was granted parole in 2015.
Marshall was 84 years old when he became a free man.
Willain Heirens that man who was known as the lipstick killer and is the longest serving
prisoner in Chicago served 65 years and 181 days in prison before he passed away in prison,
well he comes in at number 7 on our list.
William George Heirens was an american convicted serial killer who confessed to 3 murders in
1946.
He was called the Lipstick killer because he would always write a message at the crime
scene with lipstick.
Years after the confession he tried to take back his statement saying that he was a victim
of coercive interrogation and police brutality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDfqUeWg0s 33:43-33:55 He was given a
life sentence with the possibility of parole but he died in prison at the age of 83 years
old, he passed away from diabetes.
One of the youngest people to be convicted and sentenced on our list is up next at number
6.
We have Joseph Ligon who is still in prison for a crime he committed at the age of 15
years old which always sparked the debate of how young a person can be before they are
allowed to be given an adult sentence of life in prison.
Ligon was 15 years old and he's still in prison almost 66 years later.
He was sentenced to life without the possilibty of parole for a murder.
But it took a US Supreme 66 years to declare that life without the possibility of parole
was unconstitutional for juvenile murderers so he was released.
Number 5.
We have a man who served 66 years and 123 days.
We are talking Johnson Van Dyke Grigsby.
He was sentenced to life in prison after he killed a man in a bar fight.
Grigsby was actually able to outlive his prison sentence he was released at the age of 89
years old.
For some reason he returned back to the prison and voluntarily did hard jobs in the prison.
Grigsby was convicted of second degree murder in 1908 and he was eventually paroled from
Indiana state penitentiary in Michigan City in 1974.
Which means he served out just over 66 years.
He was 89 years old when he saw freedom.
When released he was able to live another 12 years before he passed away at 101 years
old.
https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/07/24/a-prison-curiosity/
We have John Phillips at number 4.
Philips prison sentence is still on going but as of right now at the time of this recording
Philips just passed his 67th year in prison.
He is known to be the longest serving prisoner in North Carolina.
Philips was convicted when he was in the 9th grade and he was arrested and charged with
sexual assault that landed him in prison for a very long time.
He took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty and he recieved life in prison.
Now at the age of 85 years old he has lost all desire to live in the real world.
A lot of these convicts when they leave prison are just given $20 and a bus ticket to get
to where they want to go, but how do you know where you want to go if you have been locked
up for almost 70 years.
So much changes in that time.
If Philips did leave prison it would almost be a death sentence to him because how would
he even survive you loose so much contact with the outside world it leave you confused
and forgien in your own country.
Also Philips is almost 90 years old with no pension no money coming in, how would he work
so staying in prison is just the best situation for him, he gets food and always has a shelter.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article230690889.html
Moving into Number 3 We have talked about this man before on this channel but here we
go again we have Paul Geidel Jr who served out 68 years and 245 days in prison.
We talked about him before because he is known to the be the longest serving inmate who was
able to outlive his prison sentence.
Geidel Jr was only 17 years old when he went to prison.
He was convicted of second- degree murder in 1911.
Geidel Jr was actually released early for good behavior so he was granted parole in
1974 when he was 80 years old but because he spent so much time in prison and has absolutely
no family or people that he knows because he grew up in an orphanage he chose to remain
in the prison for 6 more years.
He was finally forced to leave the prison and he was placed in a nursing home at the
age of 86 years old and he was able to live till 93 years old.
At number 2 we have Francis Clifford Smith who is currently still in prison.
He is known right now as the longest serving inmate who is still alive and is still serving
prison time.
Right now at the time of this recording he at 69 years and about 50 days.
Hes coming closer and closer to 70 years behind bars.
Right now Smith is the oldest prisoner in the united stated.
He was actually sentenced to death for a murder.
He murdered a night watchman during a robbery at a yacht club.
He was incarcerated back in 1950.
Just 2 hours before his scheduled execution something happened, his sentence was overturned
from the death penalty and it was changed to life in prison.
So now he has a chance of becoming the person who has served the longest amount of time
in prison.
This man was born in 1924 making him currently 94 years old.
Do you guys think he’s too old now to be harmfull to society?
Should we let Smith out of prison?
Also even thought this man is known to be the oldest living person to have served the
most time in prison not much public information about this guy exist.
All I really know is he was only 24 years old when he was sentenced and in 1967 the
year the Toronto Maple Leafs won the cup, he escaped prison for 11 days.
Finally at number 1 we have the only person on this list to have served over 70 years
behind prison.
We are talking about Charles Fossard who spent 70 years and 303 days in a prison in Australia.
Fossard was a Frenech Australin homeless man who murdered an elderly man for his boots.
Clearly this man was insane, so he was quickly sent to the J Ward mental asylum in Victoria
Australia and he was left there for the next 7 decades.
Fossard was admitted to the prison in 1903 at the age of 21 years old and he wasn’t
able to outlive his prison sentence he passed away while in prison in 1974 at the age of
92 years old he is now known as the longest serving patient at the facility and also the
longest serving convict on this list.
A record you for sure don’t want to have and Francis Clifford Smith who I just talked
about has a real shot at breaking this record.