MICHIGAN
MLive
By Jessica Fleischman | jfleisc2@mlive.com
on August 28, 2013
SAGINAW, MI — John Douglas White, convicted of murdering Rebekah Jane Gay last year, has killed himself in prison, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.
White was found dead during the morning hours of Wednesday, Aug. 28, having hanged himself in his prison cell.
White, 56, was housed in the Michigan Reformatory correctional facility in Ionia at the time of his death, stated written correspondence from MDOC spokesman Russell Marlan.
After accepting a plea deal for second-degree murder as a habitual offender in the death of the 24-year-old Isabella County woman, White was sentenced to 56 years and three months in prison during his April 2013 sentencing.
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