John Gelencser
John Marlin Gelencser, 52, died at SCI Huntingdon in Pennsylvania in July 2019. Corrections officers found him unresponsive in his cell during a routine check of his housing unit, and the Huntingdon County coroner pronounced him dead before he was taken to Penn Highlands Hospital. The Pennsylvania State Police are investigating. The date of death is given as July 29 in one news report and as July 30 in UCLA Law Behind Bars records, which list asphyxiation due to hanging as the cause, as stated by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. No official cause of death had been determined as of the news report.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections lists his cause of death as asphyxiation due to hanging and his manner as suicide.
Reported by: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.
Custody: Serving a sentence.