Edgar Smith, the man who abducted and killed a 15-year-old Ramsey High School cheerleader in 1957, has died.
The Washington Post, which first reported his death, said Smith was suffering from diabetes and heart disease for several years.
Smith wasn’t in a California prison for the 1957 death of Victoria Zielinski.
Though Smith spent 14 years on death row, had four stays of execution and wrote a book from jail called “Brief Against Death,” a judge in 1971 threw out his original murder confession.