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The deaths mark the fourth and fifth suspicious inmate deaths in April 2025. The deaths also come after a triple homicide in a Tucson prison.
Now, ABC15 has learned two more inmates died this week and their deaths are being investigated as potential homicides.
Another inmate has been killed inside an Arizona state prison, just days after three others were murdered in a different ...
Arizona inmate Ricky Wassenaar, currently serving 16 life sentences, is now being accused of killing three inmates.
PHOENIX — An investigation is underway after an inmate died, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, ...
Ricky Wassenaar was convicted on 19 charges, including kidnapping, after a hostage situation at an Arizona state prison in ...
One of Arizona’s most notorious prisoners was able to kill three fellow inmates because of significant security failures and ...
Wassenaar and another inmate took over a Buckeye prison tower in 2004 in a 15-day standoff that gripped the nation. Now, he's ...
According to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Ricky Wassenaar killed Saul Alvarez, Thorne Harnage, and Donald Lashley ...
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry said the suspect was Ricky Wassenaar, a man who led an attempted prison escape in 2004. Before the attempted escape, Wassenaar was ...
TUCSON, Ariz. - An altercation at a Tucson prison on April 4 left three inmates dead, the Arizona Department of Corrections, ...
the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) said. Corrections officials identified Ricky Wassenaar as the "sole suspect" in the deaths of three inmates on Friday ...