American people who died in prison custody

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)

American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)

American record producer (1939–2021)

American nightclub operator who killed American presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

British-American programmer and businessman (1945–2021)

American crime boss (1940–2002)

American serial killer (1960–2013)

American criminal, convicted for the murder of civil rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968

FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services (1944–2023)

Osceola (1804 – January 30, 1838, Vsse Yvholv in Creek, also spelled Asi-yahola), named Billy Powell at birth, was an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida. His mother was Muscogee, and his great-grandfather was a Scotsman, James McQueen. He was reared by his mother in the Creek (Muscogee) tradition. When he was a child, they migrated to Florida with other Red Stick refugees, led by a relative, Peter McQueen, after their group's defeat in 1814 in the Creek Wars. There they became part of what was known as the Seminole people.

Irish-American gangster and crime boss (1929-2018)

American convicted murderer from California (1948-2009)

Italian-born American mobster(1897-1969)

American inmate and ornithologist (1890-1963)

American gangster (1895/1900–1954)

American criminal (1935–2006)

American serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac (1950–1980)

American blues musician (1939–1988)

American serial killer (1943–2021)

American convicted murderer and claimed serial killer (1936–2001)

American white supremacist, convicted felon

American politician (1823-1878)

American serial killer (1939–2014)

Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.

American mobster (1904–1971)

American serial killer (1947–2022)

Aaron Josef Hernandez was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played three seasons with the New England Patriots until his arrest and conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd.

Chicago gangster (1893–1957)

American boxer, mobster (1928-2005)

American serial killer (1949–1992)

American writer (1917-1960)

American mass murderer (1925–2008)

American musician (1945–2023)

American heir to the Du Pont family fortune, ornithologist, conchologist, murderer (1938–2010)

American professional wrestler (1972–2018)

Richard Benjamin Speck was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence by stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. Speck also raped one victim before killing her. A ninth potential victim, student nurse Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding beneath a bed.

American talent manager and fraudster (1954–2016)

American murderer and hitman, father of Woody Harrelson (1939–2007)

Confederate general (1817-1863)

American mass murderer (1951–2021)

American serial killer (1947–1996)

Confederate Army officer (1837-1865)

Soviet spy (1937–2014)

American real-estate heir and convicted murderer (1943–2022)

American serial killer (1978–2012)

American actor (1947-1975)

American serial killer (1905–1965)

American criminal and convicted rapist (1931–1973)

activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family

American serial killer (1945–2008)

American gangster (1931–1996)

Lozen (c. 1840 – June 17, 1889) was a warrior and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache. She was the sister of Victorio, a prominent chief. Born into the Chihenne band during the 1840s, Lozen was, according to legends, able to use her powers in battle to learn the movements of the enemy. According to James Kaywaykla, Victorio introduced her to Nana, "Lozen is my right hand ... strong as a man, braver than most, and cunning in strategy. Lozen is a shield to her people".

American murderer (1940–2020)

American mobster (1911–1992)

American actress (1939-2010)