Michael Wayne McGray Charged with Killing Cellmate

on May 31, 2011 in Law Enforcement, Serial Killers by Brian Combs

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Convicted serial killer Michael Wayne McGray has been formally charged by the RCMP with the murder of his cellmate, Jeremy Phillips, last November. A warrant used to search McGray’s cell, it appeared that Phillips had been beaten to death with a cat scratching post.

I don’t know why there was a cat scratching post in their cell. Does Canada allow pets in their maximum security prisons?

In a earlier television interview, McGray said he would kill again, even if he was in prison:

It’s like a craving or hunger… It’s something I have to do… It gets to a point where I just can’t control it anymore.

I want to go to an institution, a hospital somewhere for a while where I can get some treatment because if I don’t, just because I’m in prison doesn’t mean the killing’s going to stop.

The RCMP says they haven’t been in a hurry to charge McGray, because he’s not going anywhere. He is serving six concurrent life sentences.

I wonder if they’ve moved him to solitary, at least.