Arizona Prison Inmate Says he Killed 4 Pedophiles
Ricky Wassenaar killed three men at an Arizona State Prison near Tucson on April 4. Two were serving life sentences for sexual conduct with a minor. The third had raped and killed a 15-year-old girl.
Wassenaar's only regret was that he didn't kill more.
"Child molesters: I wanted to kill them all. That's all I can say," he told the Arizona Mirror in a recent phone call.
But he did say more.
"The taxpayers no longer have to pay for them," he continued. "I'm paying my debt to society."
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Re-entry is investigating what happened that day. No charges have been filed yet, and a spokesperson for the Pima County Attorney's Office said that Corrections has not yet referred its investigation to their office. The Corrections Department has not commented on the matter, other than to condemn the violence and note that it was quickly curtailed.
Wassenaar, who is known in prison as "Rooster," is already serving 16 life sentences for his part in a 2004 jail-break attempt that ended in a 15-day hostage stand-off at the Lewis Prison in Buckeye. He has spent 38 of his 62 years in Arizona prisons, with just a four-month stint on the outside. And the Pima County Attorney, Laura Conover, has written newspaper op-eds declaring her aversion to the death penalty..................
Wassenaar also claims he killed a fourth prisoner (note a convicted sex offender) last November because he didn't want to share a cell.