Top 10 Most Famous People Who Died While in Prison

The Top Ten
1 Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths... read more
2 John Gotti
3 Jeffrey Dahmer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton... read more
4 James Earl Ray James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American criminal who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a guilty plea—thus forgoing a jury trial and the possibility of a death sentence—and was sentenced to 99 years of imprisonment. Four days after his guilty plea, he recanted his... read more
5 Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Edward Epstein (/ˈɛpstiːn/ EP-steen. January 20, 1953 - August 10, 2019) was an American financier and convicted sex offender. He was born and raised in New York City.

Epstein began his professional life by teaching at the Dalton School, despite lacking a college degree. After his dismissal from the school, he entered the banking and finance sector. He worked at Bear Stearns in various... read more
6 Bernie Madoff Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff is an American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He was known for comitting several acts of fraud and turned his wealth management business into the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion.

He was arrested for his crimes on December 11, 2008. He was charged with 11 felonies, including securities fraud,... read more
7 Phil Spector Harvey Phillip Spector (born Harvey Philip Spector; December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) was an American record producer and songwriter, best known for his innovative recording practices and entrepreneurship in the 1960s, followed decades later by his two trials and conviction for murder in the 2000s. Spector developed the Wall of Sound, a production style that is characterized for its diffusion... read more
8 John McAfee
9 Lou Pearlman
10 Mohamed Morsi

The Newcomers

? Harold Shipman Harold Frederick Shipman Jr. (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was a British GP and the most prolific serial killer in recorded history, with an estimated 250 victims. On 31 January 2000, Shipman was found guilty of murdering fifteen patients under his care. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. Shipman died by suicide by hanging... read more
The Contenders
11 Ted Kaczynski
12 Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (12 January 1893 - 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and leading member of the Nazi Party. He attended the Prussian Cadet Corps to become an officer. In World War I, his success as a fighter pilot was honored with the highest German military order, Pour le Mérite... read more
13 Rudolf Hess
14 Robert Hanssen
15 Emil Hácha
16 Slobodan Milošević
17 Mary Read
18 Ilse Koch
19 Ian Brady Ian Brady was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 2, 1938. As a teenager, he spent time in prison and in young offenders' facilities because of house breaking and burglary. He met Myra Hindley while they were both working at a small chemicals company in Manchester. Together they murdered five children between 1963 and 1965. In 1965, they sought to implicate Hindley's brother-in-law, David Smith,... read more
20 Ronald Kray
21 Ulrike Meinhof
22 Richard Ramirez Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez, known as Richard Ramirez, widely known as the Night Stalker, was an American serial killer, rapist, and burglar.

Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas, on February 29, 1960, the youngest of Julian and Mercedes Ramirez's five children. His father, a Mexican national and former Juarez policeman who later became a laborer on the Santa Fe railroad, was prone to fits... read more
23 Toussaint Louverture
24 Marquis de Sade
25 Klaus Barbie
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