Utah State Prison

Suicides

January 2003 - 52 year-old Charles Miller hanged himself by stringing his shoelaces around his bed frame while being detained in the Olympus Mental Health Unit of Utah State Prison. Even though he was "depressed and suicidal", he was not placed on suicide watch. He was pronounced dead at University Hospital one hour after he was found. The details of Miller's crime, which resulted in his 6 year sentence, are somwhat bizarre. Miller hunted down his wife, 41-year-old Sharon Miller, to the Tooele County Courthouse, where she signed a protective court order against him. As she was pulling away from the courthouse, he rammed her SUV with his pickup, flipping it, and then swiftly dove inside the vehicle and stabbed her to death with a 10 inch long screwdriver. (29 Jan 2003 The Salt Lake Tribune)

August 1998 - A botched suicide attempt left death-row serial killer Roberto Arguelles hospitalized in critical condition. Arguelles was found hanging by a laundry bag in his cell located in section 4 of the Uinta I cell block. An hour later he was shipped to LDS hospital. Days before this suicide attempt Arguelles had already tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists, but because he was placed under full-surveillance security watch, he was unsuccessful. The killer of four had managed to hook the string of a laundry-bag around a metal bar above his door while stringing the bag around his neck. Arguelles was sentenced to die by a firing squad in June of 1997 for for the kidnapping and murdering of four women. (13 August 1998 The Salt Lake Tribune)

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