Carl Estep

Death by Force

Carl Isaac Estep, a 43-year-old white male inmate, was fatally stabbed on January 15, 1985, at the Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility in Tennessee. Estep had been convicted of aggravated rape and was serving a life sentence at the time of his death. His murder occurred during a guard shift change, when fellow inmates Nicholas Todd Sutton and Thomas Street entered Estep's cell and stabbed him 38 times in the chest and neck using homemade knives. The attack was witnessed by other inmates ...Read More

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