Died in prison
Kenneth Eugene Parnell
Kenneth Eugene Parnell, 76, died on January 21, 2008, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, where he had been receiving hospice care. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said he died of natural causes at 9:10 p.m. that Monday. Sources describe the death as the end of a case that had drawn wide public attention, but they give no further account of his life or his final days, and no dispute about the cause of death is reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness
Reported by: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.