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Serial killer David Maust who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering three teens and burying their bodies in a basement died Friday, a day after he was found hanging from a twisted bed sheet in his jail cell... Jail guards had found Maust, 51, hanging in his cell early Thursday, about 10 minutes after they told him that he was going to be transferred to a state prison later that day... Higgins said Maust used a bed sheet braided into a rope to hang himself. In a note found by the guards, Maust admitted to five killings.

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — A former death row inmate who had repeatedly asked to be executed was found dead in his cell of an apparent suicide Tuesday, a prison official said. Guards found Charles E. Roche, Jr., 42, of Hammond, dead during a security check, Indiana State Prison Superintendent Ed Buss said. He used a sheet braided into a rope to hang himself, the Indiana Department of Correction said. Roche was convicted of two murders in 1990, but a federal judge reduced his death sentence to life in prison in 2001. Roche was sentenced to death for the May...