Bernard Hatch
Bernard Hatch, 81, died on November 8, 2021, at the Fishkill Correctional Facility Regional Medical Unit, where he was held in the custody of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. He had been in state prison for more than 46 years, according to the state corrections department. The department said the official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner's office. The New York Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation was notified and lists his death as a medical death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness
Reported by: New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (the agency that held him); New York State Office of the Attorney General, Office of Special Investigation (outside investigators).