several news organizations including the
boston globe reported he was murdered in
prison today by inmates associated with
the mob welcome to watch mojo and today
we're looking at 10 killers who were
murdered in prison
many saying that today 30 years after he
was sentenced
donald harvey was judged for this list
we're looking at convicted murderers who
died at the hands of another inmate
which of these stories do you find the
most chilling let us know in the
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thorn niss christensen thor christensen
terrified a town no conscience
whatsoever zero born in denmark thorne
is christensen was brought to the us by
his parents at the age of five although
a bright student in high school
christensen later lost interest in his
studies and dropped out to work at a gas
station around this time he began
harboring despicable thoughts which he
then made a reality after stealing a
pistol from a friend he was responsible
for the deaths of four women but his
murderous spree came to an end when his
intended fifth victim survived the
ordeal and led the police to him months
later this guy thinks what he did was
all right while serving a life sentence
at folsom state prison christensen was
wounded in the exercise yard by an
unidentified prisoner and later
succumbed to his injuries
jose antonio rodriguez vega
dubbed el matabejas which translates to
the old lady killer in english jose
antonio rodriguez vega reigned terror on
elderly women and cantabria an
autonomous community in spain in the
span of just eight months rodriguez vega
warmed his way into the hearts and homes
of several women in the area and took
the lives of at least 16 of them upon
his arrest rodriguez vega confessed to
the crimes but later recanted his
confession during his trial regardless
he was found guilty and sentenced to 440
years in prison after serving only a
fraction of his sentence rodriguez vega
met his end at the hands of two inmates
at his prison in salamanca who brutally
attacked him in the common area
leopold
the crimes of leopold zian are pretty
tragic not only because they involve the
deaths of four people and the assault of
many others but because a large number
of them could have been prevented zeal
had been convicted twice of crimes
involving assault but in both cases he
was released early by a parole board he
later succeeded in cutting short the
lives of four young boys before he was
arrested again this time for good zeal
was convicted of just one murder and
received the death penalty although this
was later commuted to a life sentence he
was attacked and killed in prison by a
fellow inmate who was acquitted of the
crime on the basis of insanity
leroy martin born and raised in gaffney
south carolina leroy martin lived a
seemingly normal life he worked in a
textile mill and had a wife and three
children behind that facade though was a
maniac who reigned terror on women in
the area and was responsible for the
deaths of four people and i was getting
a little eerie feeling as we got deeper
in the woods and
finally one of the deputies said here
she is and
she was covered up with some brush after
placing two calls himself to a newspaper
editor martin was spotted close to a
crime scene by two local residents and
was later arrested by
better catch me police soon or i'm gonna
take me another one why don't you just
turn yourself in nah y'all gonna have to
hunt me down and shoot me dead like the
dog i am he was sentenced to four
consecutive life terms but only served
about four years before he was put out
of his misery by another inmate at the
central correctional institution in
south carolina part of him wanted to be
called i think another part of him
enjoyed the publicity he would get up
every morning and go down to a local
cafe and
get copies of all the papers and read
and talk about the strangler charles
schmid national media pounced including
playboy and life magazine all to see the
man the murderer with a personality
bigger than life the pied piper of
tucson charles schmidt was a serial
killer who claimed the lives of three
young ladies in the 1960s schmidt was
known for hanging out with a group of
teenagers in the tucson area and when he
wanted to know what taking a life would
feel like he sought his victims within
that group it was may 31 1964 when
schmid decided to fulfill a longtime
desire to see what it would feel like
to kill in the end it was one of those
same friends who was instrumental in
helping the police build a winning case
against him richie bruns got probation
was sent to ohio so he
was so jittery he called his father and
told him all about what he knew about
schmidt and the deaths after
successfully escaping from the arizona
state prison in 1972 schmidt was
recaptured and sent back where he met
his end just three years later in a
horrific attack by two other inmates
james whitey bulger at the age of 14
bulger had his first brush with the law
arrested and setting up a lifetime of
being on the wrong side of the law once
the most wanted fugitive in america
james whitey bulger was an infamous mob
boss who controlled the winter hill gang
in somerville massachusetts he also
worked as an fbi informant for many
years which unsurprisingly did not make
him many friends among his criminal
associates bulger lived as a fugitive
for 17 years but was finally arrested in
2011 and handed two consecutive life
sentences for his notorious crimes
including murder whitey bulger was found
guilty on 31 counts including both
racketeering charges and was found to
have been involved in 11 murders he
bounced around multiple prisons before
being sent to the united states
penitentiary in hazelton west virginia
on october 29 2018. in less than 24
hours bulger was ambushed by several
inmates and left for dead in an
unrecognizable state investigative
reporter eric rasmussen found out
boulter is the third prisoner killed at
that facility just this year donald
harvey
while working as a hospital orderly in
ohio and kentucky donald harvey was
responsible for the deaths of a
self-proclaimed 87 people it was quite
bizarre
and on certain levels raised some doubts
as to whether or not this guy was
reciting some sort of fantasy harvey
employed several methods in what he
deemed as a mercy killing of his
patients including the use of poisons
suffocation and withholding essential
medications they do narrow the list to
10 possible victims
all died of illnesses that could be a
cover for poisons like arsenic
a substance found in large quantities at
harvey's apartment he pleaded guilty to
37 murders to avoid the death penalty
and was sentenced to life imprisonment
but when you describe yourself as an
angel of death chances are you're bound
to get a taste of your own medicine at
some point this came in the form of
james elliott a fellow inmate at the
toledo correctional institution in ohio
who descended upon harvey being familiar
with his crimes he placed himself in
that position i really don't have much
compassion for him
he's
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i said back then and i'd say today if he
ever had gotten out he would have
continued to kill people richard loeb i
think that the murder
said something to people about american
society
this was seen as a culmination of trends
that were dangerous that were immoral
richard loeb and nathan leopold were two
extremely intelligent students born to
wealthy parents and fantasized about
committing the perfect murder wealthy
well-educated teenagers who had done it
they said
for the sheer thrill they found their
victim in the young bobby franks who
paid the ultimate price on may 21
1924. the two got rid of the body but
mistakenly dropped a pair of eyeglasses
at the scene which were traced back to
leopold they found that only three pairs
of eyeglasses with that hinge had been
sold in the chicago district they
managed to evade the death penalty and
were sentenced to life imprisonment
instead but while leopold maintained a
stellar record through his sentence and
was eventually granted parole in 1958
loeb's story took a gruesome turn he met
his end at the hands of another prisoner
at the stateville penitentiary in
illinois who viciously attacked him in
the shower
albert de salvo they were young and old
black and white as the number of victims
grew police became more and more
frustrated 1960s boston massachusetts
was terrorized by two criminals one
dubbed the boston strangler who killed
13 women and the green man who broke
into women's homes and assaulted them
the grisly headline grabbing crimes had
some comparing the boston strangler to
jack the ripper as police launched an
investigation into the green man's
activities they were pointed towards
albert de salvo whom they arrested and
charged with the crimes while in custody
desalvo confessed to also being the
boston strangler but due to a lack of
physical evidence he was only tried for
the green man allegations desalvo was
serving a life sentence when he died
after being wounded by another inmate in
the prison infirmary decades later dna
evidence obtained from one of the
victims would prove that desalvo was in
fact the boston strangler it would
appear to definitively determine in fact
that albert de salvo was the killer of
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jeffrey dahmer jeffrey dahmer was
responsible for killing more than a
dozen people the majority of those
murders happened in an apartment near
the marquette campus one of the most
infamous serial killers to ever walk the
earth jeffrey dahmer was responsible for
the deaths of 17 young men his spree
came to an end in july 1991 when an
intended victim escaped from dahmer's
apartment and led the police back to him
he pleaded guilty to all the charges
leveled against him and received 15
consecutive life sentences in wisconsin
and an additional one in ohio in prison
dahmer was reportedly unremorseful for
his crimes which reportedly infuriated
his fellow inmate christopher scarver
resulting in an attack in the prison gym
that left dahmer dead to many including
dahmer's own attorney it comes as little
surprise i wasn't shocked because i
thought that
jeffrey dahmer would end up this way
scarver also killed jessie anderson
another convicted murderer who just
happened to be in the gym at the same
time at his first court appearance
scarborough entered the courtroom
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