Lonnie D. Franklin Jr.
Lonnie D. Franklin Jr. was 67 and had worked as a city trash collector and as a garage attendant at an LAPD station, according to CNN. He died on March 28, 2020, at San Quentin State Prison in California, where he was held on death row. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said he was found unresponsive in his single cell in the evening, that medical staff could not save him, and that he was pronounced dead about 25 minutes later. The department said there were no signs of trauma and that the cause of death was pending an autopsy, while an earlier CDCR statement had attributed the death to natural causes.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined
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.