Died in prison
Robert Merikan
Robert Merikan died on April 4, 2003, while held in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections at Polk Correctional Institution, a state prison in Florida. The department, which recorded the death, classed its manner as natural. That classification is the department's own claim about how Robert Merikan died.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness
Reported by: Florida Department of Corrections (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.