[Deathwatch] John Crutchley, 'vampire rapist', 55

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'Vampire Rapist' Commits Suicide 
Tue Apr 2,11:21 AM ET 

MIAMI (Reuters) - A prisoner dubbed the "vampire rapist" for drinking
his victim's blood committed suicide at a Florida prison where he was
serving a life term, corrections officials said on Tuesday. 
  
Guards at the Hardee Correctional Institute in central Florida found
John Crutchley, 55, in his cell on Saturday with a plastic bag over his
head. Doctors were unable to revive him and he died of asphyxiation,
state corrections officials said. 

Crutchley kidnapped a 19-year-old hitchhiker in 1985 and raped her
repeatedly. He tied her to his kitchen counter and used needles and
tubing to drain her blood into a jar, then drank from it. 

She escaped through a bathroom window, handcuffed and naked, and was
hospitalized for the loss of about half of her blood. 

Crutchley pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexual battery. He was
released to a halfway house in Orlando in 1996 after serving 10 years
of his 25-year prison sentence, prompting an uproar among residents who
did not want him in the community. 

He was sent back to prison one day later when a drug test showed he had
used marijuana. Crutchley admitted he had smoked it during a going-away
party in prison the night before his release. He was sent back to
prison for life for violating parole.