The payoff is watching the eminent pathologist do what she does best — divining a killer's ingenious methods of poisoning prisoners locked up in maximum security cells or, in a brilliant display of forensic analysis, reconstructing a crime scene nine years after the fact.
To murder a sergeant on a maximum-security cell block sure seems like it would take some cunning.
In a maximum-security cell – about the size of a bus-stop shelter, with two steel bunks and a seatless toilet – I wrote my blog entries at a tiny stool and table bolted to the wall.
Earlier this week, Mr. Salley punched a prison guard in the face as he was leaving his maximum-security cell at Rikers Island, and he is now on 23-hour lockdown, officials said.
The incident quickly shifted from a terrible accident to a crime when the police learned that the dogs that Mr. Noel and Ms. Knoller were keeping in their apartment in Pacific Heights belonged to an imprisoned white supremacist who, officials said, was illegally running a dog-breeding ring from his maximum-security cell.
Now, visitors are escorted through the work room, the kitchen and the cellblocks, where they can see a sample of inmate graffiti from the 19th century, plus the maximum-security cell with an iron bolt for chaining a prisoner's leg to the floor.
Investigators were searching for possible accomplices who may have helped the convicted murders escape their steel-walled, maximum-security cell block in the Dannemora, New York, prison.
The surviving escapee from a prison break and three-week manhunt will spend 23 hours a day in a maximum-security cell, much more confined than he and a fellow murder convict were in the prison from which they managed a getaway, officials said Sunday.
