Serial killer dies day after suicide attempt
Tribune staff reports
Published January 20, 2006, 8:42 AM CST
Convicted serial killer David Maust died this morning in a Lake County, Ind., hospital, one day after hanging himself in his jail cell, authorities said.
Maust was pronounced dead at 7:34 a.m. at St. Anthony Medical Center in Crown Point, Ind., according to Lake County sheriff's spokesman Mike Higgins. Maust's body will be taken later today to the county coroner's office.
Higgins could not say whether Maust ever regained consciousness before he died.
Maust, 51, who admitted killing three teenagers in Hammond in 2003 and burying their remains in the basement of his rented home, was found hanging from a braided bedsheet about 4 a.m. Thursday.
He was unconscious, and corrections officers administered CPR before Maust was taken to St. Anthony.
Thursday was the day Maust was to be transported to prison to serve his life sentence.
In a sprawling, seven-page handwritten suicide note, the contents of which were provided by the county prosecutor's office, Maust apologized repeatedly for his crimes. He also was convicted in 1981 of killing an Elgin teen and was imprisoned for manslaughter while he served in the U.S. Army in Germany.
Tribune staff reporters Gerry Doyle and Jason Meisner contributed.
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