Name: 8 Criminals Who Committed Murder in Prison
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A man who is part of the reason the supermax prison was built has died.

67 year old Thomas Silverstein died this month.

And today we're breaking down cases in which dangerous criminals proved lethal even behind bars.

But it was the bite marks that were to link Smith to the killing of Greenhaven prison guard Donna Payant on May 15, 1981.

It's pretty hard sometimes to live with all the things I've done, strange about it, and

wake up in the middle of the night, you think you see somebody in your cell that you've killed or something.

So even incarceration couldn't contain Thomas Eugene Creech.

By the early 1980s, he was already serving time in Idaho after convictions for multiple murders, including killings committed in more than one state.

But Creech was far from finished, even while housed at the Indiana State Correctional Institution.

Former Ada county deputy prosecutor Roger Bourne made this statement in Court in 1995.

If the death penalty doesn't fit this defendant, who doesn't fit this defendant is a mass murderer.

He's shown extreme violence while he's in the penitentiary.

If the legislature didn't intend it to fit this defendant, who could it fit any better?

In 1981, he attacked fellow inmate David Dale Jensen, fatally beating him with a sock weighted with batteries.

The homicide occurred inside the institution and led to a first degree murder charge.

Creech pleaded guilty and received a death sentence specifically for the prison killing.

Decades later, he remains a stark example of the grim reality that some inmates pose an extreme risk, even in maximum security confinement.

My greatest thing that I want right now is to see my daughter and to be able to talk to her and explained to her everything in detail so her little mind can be at ease once and for all.

Donald Henry Gaskins, South Carolina has made national headlines for many things over the years.

One of those is serial killer Donald Pee Wee Gaskins, who died in the electric chair in 1991.

Few prison murders exposed institutional vulnerability as starkly as the one committed by Donald Henry Gaskins.

Already incarcerated in South Carolina's high security unit for murder, Gaskins somehow managed to carry out a killing inside the prison itself.

He was fairly intelligent, very outgoing.

When I say he was a total sociopath, I mean that he acted no empathy.

We know that he murdered at least 11 people.

I think it's probably been more than that.

In September 1982, he murdered fellow death row inmate Rudolph Tyner using an improvised explosive concealed inside a radio detonated within the secure housing unit.

Gaskins later admitted responsibility, was convicted for the prison killing and received an additional death sentence.

The case stands as one of the most extreme examples of how even condemned inmates can exploit security gaps to deadly effect.

After his execution, when he was in the hearse, he was coming through the front gate at the Broad River Complex on the way to Newberry for an autopsy.

And I thought to myself, you know, when he was on the street killing all these people, people, he would drive an old hearse.

That's what was his method of transportation.

As we're going around the prison hospital, they opened one of the cell doors and there was a wire mesh still remaining there.

And behind the wire mesh was this sort of Moses figure.

Infamy followed Robert Maudsley long before he became one of the most securely isolated prisoners in British history.

Born in Liverpool, Maudsley's violence began with killing of a man who had shown him material depicting the exploitation of minors.

While confined at Broadmoor Hospital, he murdered a convicted abuser.

Then at Wakefield Prison in 1978, he killed two fellow inmates in a single day, garroting one and stabbing another with a makeshift weapon.

I don't appear to have nothing to look forward to.

I've always got a sense that no officer takes any interest, and

I resent that because they only seem to be concerned with opening the door and then making sure I get back in as soon as possible.

Sensationalist claims that he ate a victim's brain were debunked by postmortem reports.

Yet the prison still dubbed him Hannibal the Cannibal.

From that day forward, authorities kept him in near total solitary confinement, escorting him only under heavy security during rare perm.

I at least spend 23 hours every day in here, and I've done so for almost four years.

It's true to say my whole world revolves around the actual cell itself.

Almost 100 years ago, a serial killer from East Grand Forks faced the executioner.

Carl Panzram was born 1891, outside what was a small farming community.

After being convicted of five murders and committing countless other heinous crimes, he was executed at Leavenworth Prison in 1930.

Historians say his childhood in East Grand Forks shaped the person he'd become a lifelong offender who claimed responsibility for numerous murders.

Carl Panzram saw prison not as punishment, but as another battleground.

While serving time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, his hatred of Authority boiled over.

I'm still on my same job and like it less each day.

In 1922, he murdered prison employee Robert Warnke, a laundry foreman, an act that ultimately sealed his fate.

Unlike inmates whose prison killings stemmed from impulse or circumstance, Panzram's actions were consistent with his own written confessions, which openly celebrated cruelty, domination and destruction.

The Leavenworth killing led to his conviction and execution by hanging in 1933.

Panzram reportedly expressed satisfaction with his sentence, remaining defiant to the end.

For all of these things, I am not the least bit sorry.

I have no conscience, so that does not worry me.

I hate the whole damn human race, including myself.

Do you remember when you learned that your father murdered Jeffrey Dahmer?

I saw it on TV and that's how I found out.

Yeah, it's a big picture popped up and I was just shocked at that point.

Scarver's name is forever tied to one of the most poured over prison murders of the 1990s.

Already serving life for a 1990 murder, he was assigned to a work detail at Wisconsin's Columbia correct institution in 1994 with fellow inmates Jesse Anderson, and

maybe you've heard of him, Jeffrey Dahmer.

In 1991, Dahmer was sentenced to live out his life here at the state prison in Portage, Wisconsin.

But those who knew him say that Dahmer never believed that he'd survive behind bars for very long.

I had predicted that he would be killed in prison because he had a death wish.

Unsupervised in the prison gym, Scarver retrieved a hidden metal bar and bludgeoned Dahmer in a staff locker room, fatally wounding him, then attacked Anderson.

Dahmer died at a hospital about an hour later.