Phillip Jablonski, 73, was found dead in his cell at San Quentin State Prison Friday.
A man who was sentenced to death for murdering his wife and mother-in-law in their Burlingame home in 1991 has died in San Quentin State Prison, officials said.
Phillip Jablonski, 73, was found unconscious in his cell on Friday and was pronounced dead 20 minutes later, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported Monday.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
Jablonski was on parole in Southern California, after serving 12 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend in 1978, when he drove to San Mateo County in April 1991 and fatally shot Carol Spadoni, 47, who had married him while he was in prison. He also raped, sodomized and fatally shot her mother, Eva Petersen, 72.
A day earlier, he had killed another woman, Fathyma Vann, who was taking automotive classes with him in Riverside County. He pleaded guilty to her murder and was sentenced to life without parole, his lawyer said.
A Vietnam War veteran, Jablonski was discharged from the military with what was described as a schizophrenic illness in 1968.
Shortly before he killed his girlfriend, Linda Kimball, in 1978, she twice tried to have him admitted to a veterans hospital, but the hospital refused to accept him, the state Supreme Court said in a 2006 ruling upholding his murder convictions and death sentence.
The court said Jablonski had also committed several rapes, tried to suffocate his 1st wife, and assaulted his mother when she visited him in prison in 1985.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, Staff, December 31, 2019
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