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| Suicide Pact In Prison Ends 20 Years Later |
| By startribune.com |
| Published: 06/16/2010 |
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Awaiting trial for separate murders, two Hennepin County jail inmates passed summer days in 1992 planning to kill themselves. After almost 18 years, it appears they both have succeeded. Zachary Persitz, 59, was found hanging in his cell at the state prison in Stillwater Friday morning, the Minnesota Department of Corrections said in a statement Tuesday. Foul play isn't suspected. He was serving life for killing and dismembering his friend and stockbroker Michael Prozumenshikov, 37, in 1991. In 1992, while held in the Hennepin County jail, Persitz and fellow inmate Russell Lund, a millionaire charged in the shooting death of his estranged wife and her lover, agreed to suffocate themselves with plastic bags. Lund succeeded, but deputies removed Persitz's bag before he lost consciousness. Read More. |
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