Sentenced Child Maller is alleged by prison cellmate – at the same facility as recently conjugal visit death

California’s prison officials investigate whether a prisoner killed his own cellmate behind bars – at the same facility where two women were killed just a few months on each other during conjugal visits.

Officier found Robert E. Cole, 48, who does not respond in his cell Friday 4 April around 6:30 am in Mule Creek State Prison, about an hour east of Sacramento.

When officers arrived at Coles Cell, they initiated “life -saving measures and activated 911,” said California’s corrections and rehabilitation department in a statement. But when paramedics arrived, de Cole pronounced dead at 06:43

The authorities are investigating whether Cole’s cellmate, Justin P. Welsh, had any role in Cole’s death.

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Cole was brought to Mule Creek in 2019 when he was sentenced to life for sexually attacked several children between the ages of 10 and 18, according to California’s corrections and rehabilitation department.

Welsh, 36, came to prison in 2023 when he was sentenced to 18 years for corporal injury to a person within seven years after a previous conviction and abuse with a firearm. Further accusations were added to adding great bodily injury – which included domestic violence.

Welsh has been placed in limited housing pending the investigation, according to officials.

This murder comes after two women were found suffocated to death at Same California prison During separate conjugal visits to their husbands, just four months apart.

Amador County Coroner has not yet established the exact cause of Cole’s death, according to prison officials.