Worst Cellmate Ever | World’s Most Evil Prisoners | Forensic Files

SAM DOUGLAS: In the United States of America, there are a select few prisoners whose names
strike fear in the hearts of even the world's hardest and most depraved criminals.
One of the very worst is inmate Casey Pigge. TERRY STEELE: Casey Pigge, by far, is the most evil prisoner that I've
ever encountered in over 22 years of incarceration. - Pigge is an animal. - Casey Pigge is the most dangerous person
that I've ever prosecuted. - Look at the history of carnage and wrath that he's left in his wake.
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge savagely murdered his ex-girlfriend's mother and left her corpse to burn.
- Can you imagine killing somebody with a box cutter? - My mom's not here. Well, you don't deserve to be here either.
LINA HAJI: He was a serial killer, and he was never going to stop. SAM DOUGLAS: Even behind bars, Pigge's lust for killing
knew no bounds. - I've never seen someone take their time and torture someone for fun.
HECTOR BRAVO: Casey actually murdered a civilian, fellow inmate, and attempted to murder
a correctional officer. Everybody who comes in contact with Casey Pigge is in danger.
- Casey Pigge is our Hannibal Lecter. [theme music] SAM DOUGLAS: The US State of Ohio is home to over 45,000
incarcerated felons, with over 1,000 of the most murderous being housed in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility,
a level 4 maximum security penitentiary. - Only your most violent offenders end up in this prison.
It's the prisoners who assaulted the staff. They assault, if not kill, other inmates.
There's just really nothing left to do with them. Essentially, you've tried everything else.
TERRY STEELE: The inmates there have no contact with each other. It's a 24-hour lockdown facility.
- It's complete separation and complete isolation. - It's about as tough as you can get in Ohio.
SAM DOUGLAS: One of the most violent and sadistic criminals this prison has ever seen
is 37-year-old Casey Pigge. TERRY STEELE: The best way to describe Casey Pigge would be being like the Joker.
It's the only kind of character that would describe the kind of crazy that I seen on Casey Pigge.
PAUL LOPEZ: The only reason that he has not been put to death is because he understands the system
well enough to manipulate it. TERRY STEELE: I have been locked up with some notorious criminals.
I was in a pod with Whitey Bulger. I was in a pod with the Somali pirate from the "Captain Phillips" movie.
And none of these guys was I ever scared of them. I'm scared of Casey Pigge. SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge has an unquenchable lust for killing.
- He's been able to kill people while he's in custody. This is a guy that's committed to murder as many times
as he can. SAM DOUGLAS: Casey Pigge was born in January 1988. He was raised in the small city of Chillicothe, Ohio.
JONA ISON: Chillicothe was the original capital of Ohio. Population's in the 20,000s.
A lot of blue-collar workers, factory work. Everybody kind of knows everybody in some way or another.
PAUL LOPEZ: Casey Pigge was born to a 14-year-old young lady. She did drugs and drank quite a bit during the pregnancy.
- If she used and drank while he was in utero, there could have been implications
on brain development, intellectual disability, potentially health concerns, all sorts
of psychiatric disorders. SAM DOUGLAS: Casey's childhood was extremely unstable and traumatic.
JONA ISON: He encountered a lot of abuse. His aunt recalled that at one time she had witnessed his mother push him from a moving car.
He was often locked in his room alone, had food slid to him under the door, and would urinate into a heat register.
- That kind of isolation is really not good for anyone, particularly a child, while their brain is developing.
LINA HAJI: There is one theory called the McDonald's triad. It talks about three red flags when
it comes to developing psychopathy as an adult, and those three red flags are bedwetting,
arson or fire setting, and cruelty to animals. So red flag. SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge's behavior spiraled out of control.
Eventually, he was taken away from his grandma and placed into foster care. JONA ISON: He had been in 100 different foster care homes.
One of his foster care fathers testified that Casey was the most needy child he had ever encountered,
and that nothing could make Casey happy. - He was severely neglected. He didn't go to school.
He didn't have his proper needs met. He was essentially homeless. He was abandoned.
Nobody wanted him. JONA ISON: I don't know that there's another case of child abuse that I'm aware of in any of the stories
I've covered to the extent of Casey Pigge's. SAM DOUGLAS: During his teenage years,
Pigge alternated between foster care and living with his abusive mom. At 18, he discovered love for the first time in his life when
he met 16-year-old Angelique. ANGELIQUE: I'm Angelique. I am the ex-girlfriend of Casey Pigge.
I met Casey when I was 16 years old through a friend of mine. I thought he was very nice and sweet.
I'd never had a boyfriend do things or treat me the way that he did-- coming to my work and surprising me
and getting me flowers. He was just so kind and caring. I was just drawn to him, like-- you know what I mean?
Like, I wanted to be around him 24/7. SAM DOUGLAS: But just two weeks into their romance,
Pigge was arrested and sent to jail. JONA ISON: It was the first time he was ever in prison.
He was charged with receiving stolen property and breaking and entering for taking a golf cart.
LINA HAJI: Pigge's crime doesn't seem to have a function other than committing the crime in and for itself.
It's not like he's stealing food because he's hungry. It seems to be engaging in the criminal behavior
to engage in the criminal behavior. It's also very indicative of somebody who is stimulation-seeking.
People who are high on psychopathy tend to have a need for stimulation. SAM DOUGLAS: When Pigge was released
just over five months later, prison appeared to have changed him. ANGELIQUE: He just became different.
He started drinking a lot, and that would make him very mean. I would do just, like, the smallest little things,
and it would just make him, like, super mad. And I was definitely scared. SAM DOUGLAS: Fueled by alcohol, Pigge's abusive tendencies
rapidly worsened. ANGELIQUE: He would accuse me of things that I obviously didn't do and being just rough with me.
SAM DOUGLAS: Despite Pigge's abusive behavior, Angelique soon became pregnant. - It seemed like because I was pregnant,
he was more abusive physically and would make me do drugs. He made me drink alcohol, like, when I was pregnant.
I would drink so much that I would end up throwing up. He would still make me drink after that.
I tried leaving a couple of different times. Each time-- like, it was always the same thing each time.
Like, he would be good at first, but he always end up doing it again. - Forcing her to take drugs and alcohol while she's pregnant
add another level of sadism, because he's not just negatively affecting her, he's also negatively
affecting his child. His ability to exert control is about also the unborn child.
SAM DOUGLAS: Seven months into her pregnancy, Pigge tried to strangle his girlfriend.
- I just remember him putting his hands around my throat and me waking up on the floor.
I didn't know where I was at first. That was scary. I went to the cops and made a report about it.
And so he did go to jail, but for 30 days. That wasn't very long. SAM DOUGLAS: Casey Pigge lived with Angelique
and her mom, Rhonda Sommers. ANGELIQUE: Me and my mom were close. I told her almost everything.
She loved dancing in her room. I'd catch her singing and dancing to the Backstreet Boys.
She was my rock and my best friend. She allowed Casey to stay with us. She would give him words of encouragement,
kind of like a mother figure. - This is her daughter, and her daughter is pregnant with his child.
So there must have been a sense of hope that he would see that there's potential for a nurturing and
caring family that maybe he could change, maybe he could be a better human being.
SAM DOUGLAS: In February 2008, Angelique and Pigge's baby was born. They moved into their own place just
a few doors down from Rhonda. Angelique was feeling hopeful. - He was doing things to show me that he had changed,
and he bought our daughter a crib. He was working with his uncle, and he seemed like he
was doing good for himself. SAM DOUGLAS: But just like before, Pigge's good behavior
didn't last long. ANGELIQUE: He was wanting to steal my mom's car, and he said something about knocking her out to steal it.
And I was like, no, don't touch my mom. Leave my mom alone. Every time I told my mom the crazy things
he was saying and wanting to do, she just reassured me, like, don't worry. It's going to be OK.
He's not going to do that. - It adds a layer of complexity when you realize that he wants
Angelique to commit crimes. The reason for that is because that would have him exert even more control over Angelique,
because he would be almost the only one with this knowledge. It would have them kind of in a Bonnie and
Clyde situation, where if I'm guilty, you're guilty as well. SAM DOUGLAS: In September 2008, Angelique left their six and
a half month old baby alone with Pigge while she went a few doors down to collect some bedding
from her 52-year-old mom. - I think I was gone maybe at the most 10 minutes. When I came back, our daughter was on the floor crying.
So I go over to pick her up, and I noticed she had some blood speckles or spots on her nose
and had a bruise. She wouldn't drink her milk. She would try to, but she couldn't
because she couldn't breathe. That freaked me out. And I asked him, like, what happened?
What did you do? And he said, nothing, nothing. That's when I was like, I'm done.
- Pigge was abused, was neglected, was deprived of a lot of things, had a really unstable home life,
and then started engaging in criminal activity at a very young age. You put all of that together, and
it would not be a far stretch to believe that he was hurting his child. SAM DOUGLAS: Angelique rushed her six and a half month
old daughter to the hospital. She was checked over and given the all-clear, but kept in for observation as a precaution.
The following day, in need of a change of clothes but fearful of running into Pigge, Angelique asked her mom
to bring some from the family home while she took a shower at her aunt's. ANGELIQUE: If I could just go to my aunt's house
and take a shower and then my mom just bring me clean clothes. You know what I mean.
I was like, can you please hurry? Because I want to get back to the hospital to be with my daughter.
Said she didn't mind, and I was like, Mom, please be careful. [phone line ringing]
SAM DOUGLAS: Rhonda was taking an unusually long time, so Angelique tried calling her.
- It just kept ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing, and then she wouldn't answer.
So I'm like, OK, she's on her way then. SAM DOUGLAS: Meanwhile, a call had come in to the emergency services in Chillicothe
reporting an apartment building on fire. Reporter Jona Ison arrived on the scene.
JONA ISON: I remember being in the parking lot out here and watching as firefighters went in.
There was neighbors, of course, out and about, standing and watching. [phone rings]
SAM DOUGLAS: Angelique's phone began to ring. ANGELIQUE: The next thing I know, my brother is calling me and telling me
that my apartment is on fire and they don't know where my mom is. I ran. I ran non-stop.
I didn't stop to take a break to breathe. By the time I got there, they had already put the fire out,
but they couldn't find my mom. - Coming on scene, of course, firefighters and police
wouldn't have thought much had happened other than a fire. Upon closer investigation, though, they
discovered Rhonda's body behind a couch inside the living room. Her throat had been cut several times.
She had been murdered. ANGELIQUE: They came in and told us they found her body. I just kept telling myself, this can't be real.
I immediately knew. I just knew it had to have been him. SAM DOUGLAS: Angelique informed the police
that her ex-boyfriend, Casey Pigge, was likely involved. They found him around six hours later.
- He just asked some random person for a ride, and they took him to his cousin's house.
- He had a spot of blood on his shorts and a box cutter on him. That blood on his shorts was a mixture
of Casey's and Rhonda's. SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge was immediately arrested and taken to Ross County Jail.
An autopsy on Rhonda's body showed that she had been killed with the box cutter.
JONA ISON: Casey had cut Rhonda's throat at least five times and killed her, put her body behind the couch,
and then set the apartment on fire. - This is something you do up close, and it really indicates a suspect
attempting to exert control or power over their victim. When you have multiple wounds like
that as well, not two, not three, but five, that typically is consistent with somebody
who has absolute rage inside towards their victim. - He had a history of fire setting,
so this was something he was used to. This was something that he enjoyed. This was something that fulfilled some need in him.
Of course, there was the utility of potentially covering up evidence. - When we discovered from the police
later that this, in fact, had been a murder that was then covered up by a fire, it was quite a surprise.
Chillicothe is a pretty small town. The community is always kind of taken aback when someone is murdered, because it
doesn't happen that often. ANGELIQUE: I wanted to kill him. I wanted to do to him what he did to my mom.
Not only did I lose my mom, but I lost my home. My mom was a good person, so sweet and
kind and caring and giving. And I blame myself. If I would have been home, then maybe she'd still be alive.
SAM DOUGLAS: Investigators spoke with Pigge, who revealed his motive for the murder
of his ex-girlfriend's mom. - Casey had felt that Rhonda was preventing him from having a happy life with Angelique
and their daughter. His plan was to murder Rhonda, and then they could be a happy family together.
And his thought process was that they could go off to Texas where his mother was living, and
then they could kill his mom. LINA HAJI: I believe that he saw Rhonda as a potential threat to his relationship,
to his ability to control, to his abuse, to his sadism. He wanted to engage in evil, and Rhonda
was just the perfect victim. SAM DOUGLAS: Three days later, 21-year-old Casey Pigge was charged with aggravated
murder and aggravated arson. - There were circumstances which would have made him eligible for the death
penalty in the state of Ohio. However, somebody who is possibly going to receive
or could receive the death penalty has to take an IQ test. DAVID P. FORNSHELL: There are many federal judges
that are unwilling. To impose the death penalty against a defendant who has an IQ below 70, and Casey Pigge was
2 to 3 points lower than that. ANGELIQUE: It's so easy for anybody to fake their IQ test.
And he's already faked so many other times, like to get Social Security and to get things that he wants.
SAM DOUGLAS: The prosecution instead pursued a sentence of life without parole. After pleading guilty, Pigge's sentencing hearing
began just over a year later, in November 2009. - In court, he was just sitting there facing,
you know, straight. I don't think he seemed remorseful at all. I just had nothing but hate, nothing
but pure hatred for him. SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge's attorney's line of defense focused on his childhood.
JONA ISON: The sentencing hearing was very disturbing, hearing all the things that Casey
had been through growing up. JONA ISON: The judge said that it was the most egregious case of child abuse
he had heard in his 16 years as a judge. That doesn't mean that you can just murder somebody.
SAM DOUGLAS: After a four-hour hearing. Casey was sentenced to 41 years in prison.
He was sent to Lebanon Correctional Facility in Ohio. - Lebanon Correctional institution is an old-school,
1960s, traditional prison. It is what you would envision as a typical prison that you might see depicted in TVs or in movies.
It holds some of the most dangerous prisoners that we have in the state, people that have committed murder, rape, robbery, kidnapping.
SAM DOUGLAS: Once inside, Pigge quickly gained a reputation as a frequent troublemaker.
- The first three years he was in prison, there were multiple instances of him getting into trouble.
He had gotten into some fights. He had some contraband, some razor blades, maybe some homemade alcohol.
SAM DOUGLAS: This behavior continued for the next three years. Eventually, he was sent to segregation.
JONA ISON: The segregation cells at Lebanon were made of cinder blocks and had a couple of bunks in them.
There are just too many inmates to be able to house very many in segregation alone,
so usually segregation cells have two people in them. SAM DOUGLAS: After a month alone, Pigge was
given a cellmate, Luther Wade. JONA ISON: Luther Wade was 26 years old and serving a 10 year sentence
for aggravated burglary. DAVID P. FORNSHELL: There was a fairly sizable hole in the wall of Casey Pigge and Luther Wade's cell that
led into an adjacent cell. The cinder block had been pulled out of the wall that actually allowed Casey Pigge to travel
back and forth to play cards with the inmates that were in the adjacent cell. The hole in the wall where the cinder block was missing
was covered by a scrapbook of magazine pages that Casey Pigge had pulled out. SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge and Wade were cellmates
for just a single day. DAVID P. FORNSHELL: Casey Pigge told Luther Wade that he wanted to show him some type
of a card game magic trick. He wanted him to be blindfolded with a sheet that they had in the cell, and that he should count to 15.
Luther Wade began to count, and once he got to the number five, Casey Pigge retrieved the cinder block which
had been underneath the bed. And he began to smash Luther Wade in the side of the head.
PAUL LOPEZ: This went on for several minutes, and Pigge would actually pause in between segments
of the assault to look for signs of life. If he felt that Luther was still alive,
he just continued beating him with the cinder block in the head. After he was convinced Luther was gone,
he placed his body in the lower bunk of the cell. JONA ISON: There was a correctional officer
who was doing rounds when Casey hollered out to him and said he had killed his cellmate.
At first, the corrections officer didn't believe him, but then looked in and saw a pool of blood
under Luther Wade's bed. LINA HAJI: To murder this person by pretending we're going to do a magic trick
and then kill you with a cinder block, that takes a lot of planning and calculation.
So it makes you wonder how somebody with a low IQ was that criminally savvy. SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge was secured and
immediately taken to an interview room to be questioned. Luther Wade was rushed to the hospital,
where he was pronounced dead. DAVID P. FORNSHELL: I was the county prosecutor responsible for investigating and prosecuting the murder
of Mr. Wade by Casey Pigge. Prison officials escorted us to the cell. As I looked in, the two things that quickly stood out to me
were the blood all over the cell as well as this large hole in the wall. I had never seen this level of brutality
in one of our prison murders. The only type of person that can do that is somebody that has zero regard for human life.
The best evidence that we have of why Casey Pigge wanted to murder Luther Wade was the statement that he gave
to the prison investigator right afterwards, which is, how many people do you have to kill to be considered to be a serial killer?
And the hair on the back of my neck stood up because that told me that this was intentional,
this was done with prior calculation and design. Casey Pigge is our Hannibal Lecter.
SAM DOUGLAS: On January 30, 2017, 29-year-old Casey Pigge pled guilty to the aggravated
murder of Luther Wade. Although the murder qualified as a death penalty case, Pigge's low IQ made him exempt for a second time.
DAVID P. FORNSHELL: We made the decision reluctantly to go ahead and agree to a plea agreement
whereby he would agree to plead guilty to the aggravated murder, we would dismiss the death penalty
specifications, and he would be sentenced to a term of life without parole. SAM DOUGLAS: Just two days after his plea hearing,
Pigge was being transported back to prison from court when his insatiable lust for killing
overcame him once again. TERRY STEELE: My name is Terry Steele. I had been incarcerated for a drugstore robbery.
My day started at North Central Correctional Facility, and it was a really cold morning.
We loaded up about 5:30 in the morning, and we went to Franklin Medical Center. Franklin Medical Center is the hub where they transport all
the prisoners from the state. SAM DOUGLAS: Terry was being transferred to another prison because of a disciplinary violation.
Whilst at the medical center, he was loaded onto a prison bus with Casey Pigge, someone he'd never come across until now.
TERRY STEELE: I think there was about 12 or 13 people on that bus that day until the bus was full.
They loaded us all in a quick manner up on the bus, putting level 1, 2, 3, and 4 inmates all
together in a manner that they'd never do typically. It was obvious that they were in a hurry
to get back because we were probably two hours late leaving the hub that day. JONA ISON: The inmates were not told where
to sit on the transport bus. They just got to sit wherever. Casey, he was the highest security risk,
and he was seated the furthest away from the correction officers. SAM DOUGLAS: Terry has returned to the road the bus
was driving along that day. TERRY STEELE: I was loaded in about four seats from the back of the bus, and Pigge was
located right across from me. PAUL LOPEZ: He loosened his belly chain, was able to step out of his handcuffs,
and now his hands are in front of him and they're no longer secured to his waist.
What he ended up having is a ligature, a steel ligature. Now, the waist chain now is in a loop attached to the center
chain of his handcuffs. TERRY STEELE: From the second he took those chains off, the atmosphere was electric because everybody on the bus
was aware something was about to happen. SAM DOUGLAS: A few rows in front of Pigge
was 61-year-old David Johnson. He was serving an eight-year sentence for sexual battery.
TERRY STEELE: He would let him get a breath and then just put more pressure on. It was like he was torturing him.
He wasn't just trying to hurry up and kill him. He deliberately took his time. I've never seen the look of glee
like he had on his face that day. It looked like a look of ecstasy, like he was having sex.
This is the evilest person I've ever seen. - He's starting to realize that this is something
that he enjoys, that he takes pleasure in, that he takes sexual pleasure in. Not only is it escalating, it's likely
that it's not going to stop. - The guards never heard a sound because it was reported by the inmates
that they had the radio in the bus on, listening to music at a very high volume.
TERRY STEELE: Eventually, 15 minutes in, he took his hands, held his hands over his nose and his mouth
until he was dead. LINA HAJI: It's a cold, badly humored joke in his eyes. It's a very detached statement from the fact
that he just took somebody's life. He's, in a way, sending a message to the other inmates.
This is who I am. This is what I'm capable of. Don't mess with me because I don't have remorse,
and I'll do it again. TERRY STEELE: He put him back in his seat and set him up. He told everybody just to say you were asleep.
And from that point forward, nothing else was said. SAM DOUGLAS: The murder went unnoticed by prison
transport officers as the bus continued on its journey. TERRY STEELE: I assumed there was a reason he
was doing what he was doing. I didn't find out until we got to the hub that he didn't know the man, that he had no reason, that he
did this just for enjoyment. JONA ISON: When the bus arrived at Ross Correctional
Institution, the officers on the bus discovered 61-year-old David Johnson dead. SAM DOUGLAS: Terry informed a correctional officer that it
was Pigge who killed Johnson. TERRY STEELE: I've seen many acts of violence in prison.
I've never seen evil of that magnitude. I never seen somebody kill somebody just
for the joy of killing them. DAVID P. FORNSHELL: Even after having pled guilty to Luther Wade's murder,
knowing that he was about ready to be sentenced to life without parole for that murder,
he is able to carry out yet another murder while incarcerated. It just made me sick to my stomach.
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge was placed into ad seg, or solitary confinement, this time completely alone.
Now with a third brutal murder to his name, when he appeared in court for killing his cellmate,
the security was unprecedented. - I've never seen that level of a showing of force,
that level of a showing of manpower in the immediate proximity to a defendant ever before.
Casey Pigge was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the murder of Luther Wade.
SAM DOUGLAS: Eight months later, Pigge was sentenced for the bus murder of David Johnson
following a guilty plea. Again, security was tight. - The prosecutor was concerned he would kill again,
so she had requested that he be brought in by a SWAT team. He was smiling, laughing, very much seemed to be
enjoying all this attention. SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge was given another 25 years to serve on top of his existing sentences.
- Adding 25 years to somebody who's already going to die in prison with a life sentence is
completely inconsequential, so you even wonder, what is the point? Why does the Justice system go through with it?
Maybe it's to get justice for the victims. You know, that's very important, but it's inconsequential to Pigge.
SAM DOUGLAS: Casey Pigge was to carry out his sentence at Southern Ohio Correctional Institute
in Lucasville. He was placed into permanent administrative segregation. But even that would not be enough to stop this killer.
- At this point, he cannot be in general population because he's displayed, time and time again,
that he's a murderer. He's now a serial killer. - There was a letter that he had written another inmate that
indicated he was going to catch him another one, you'll see, and signed the letter, "Love, Boxcutter."
SAM DOUGLAS: On February 20, 2018, Pigge, now age 30, requested to see a nurse on the same day
as another inmate called Greg Reinke. - Greg Reinke was in prison for life on an aggravated
murder charge. He had a prior history of attacks in prison. HECTOR BRAVO: Any inmate could ask to go to the nurse.
They usually fill out a slip, and once the nurse receives it, it'll be a scheduled appointment, kind
of like out in the streets. SAM DOUGLAS: Correctional Officer Matthew Mathias accompanied both Pigge and Reinke
to the infirmary that day. - The officer first escorted Mr. Reinke into the infirmary
and then shut the door. He left Mr. Pigge in the hallway. After approximately four minutes,
Mr. Reinke is finished with the nurse, and him and Officer Mathias are walking back
towards the infirmary door, likely so he could swap Reinke with Pigge. At this point, you see Mr. Pigge take the handcuffs,
lower them underneath his body, step out of them so now he has his hands for use
in the front of his body. - Matthew Mathias went to open the door. Casey rushed the door and slammed Matthew Matthias,
pinning him behind the door against the wall. And in less than a minute, Casey and Greg Reinke
stabbed Matthew Matthias over 30 times with two shanks. HECTOR BRAVO: He was able to make two shanks out
of the metal in his cell bunk and ultimately carried out his attack on officer Matthias.
JONA ISON: So the nurse hit the red alert button, which notified others at the prison
that there was a serious incident happening. About 20 correction officers rushed to that mini-infirmary
and latched on to Casey Pigge and Greg Reinke and broke it up. HECTOR BRAVO: It brings back memories of incidents
that I have been involved in where inmates did stab correctional officers. It's a horrible scene, often filled
with blood, loud noises, the alarm blaring, the smell of pepper spray in the air, people screaming.
SAM DOUGLAS: Matthew Mathias was rushed to the hospital via helicopter, where he was treated for multiple stab wounds,
including internal bleeding. Miraculously, he survived the attack. Pigge was immediately secured and questioned.
- He said that the officer had broke his CD player and was talking smack to him on a whole other level.
He also stated that you can only push a dog to its limits, and that is the reason that he chose to assault
the officer, per his words. Violence should always be the last option, and in this case,
it was the first option. SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge was transferred to Ohio State Penitentiary, the state's only supermax prison.
- I think he's absolutely committed to doing as much harm to people as he possibly can, and
he won't be stopped unless he is completely isolated. There is nothing that you can do from a security standpoint
and have him around other inmates at any point in time, or else he's going to try to kill them.
SAM DOUGLAS: Pigge's sentencing for the attack on Matthew Matthias took place on April 17, 2019.
JONA ISON: Casey Pigge pleaded guilty in court and tried to allege that there are two sides to every coin,
and that he tried to claim that he previously had been egged on to attack inmates.
Officials looked into that and said that there was no evidence of that. SAM DOUGLAS: Avoiding execution yet again,
Pigge was sentenced to 32 years. DAVID P. FORNSHELL: I was angry on so many levels
and for so many different reasons, because from my perspective, Casey Pigge should have been
strapped down and executed. TERRY STEELE: Pigge's actions that day changed my life forever.
It changed the way I looked at the world. I never knew that somebody could be that evil.
- My mom, she was my everything, absolutely everything. I always imagined her growing older with me
and see my kids grow up. It's a piece of me missing, and I'm, like, just-- and it's just not right.
Like, I'm just not whole. - Casey Pigge was able to kill someone in his cell while incarcerated.
He was able to kill somebody on a bus while incarcerated. And he was able to almost kill, well, a corrections officer
also while incarcerated. SAM DOUGLAS: Casey Pigge will remain incarcerated in isolation for the rest of his life.
- Casey Pigge has a black heart, and he's soulless. I think he's a weak, cowardly monstrosity that
only kills the defenseless. We need to put him in a jail cell so long that time forgets he ever existed.
- His goal is to kill as many people as I possibly can, so that I can be considered to be one of the world's
best serial killers. He wants to kill. He wants a high body count. He doesn't care what he does to get there.
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Remorseless murderer Casey Pigge's main ambition is to be the ultimate serial killer. If unrestrained, he remains a deadly threat.

World’s Most Evil Prisoners is a chilling exploration of the terrifying offenders sentenced to a lifetime behind bars. Locked away, yet still driven by their twisted desires, these inmates delve into acts of torture, abduction, and homicide. Prepare to confront the criminals from the darkest facets of humanity.

Brief Summary

Casey Pigge, a violent inmate, committed multiple murders, showcasing his sadistic nature and psychological issues throughout his life.

Key points

The Most Evil Prisoner. Casey Pigge is described as the most dangerous inmate by those who know him.
A Childhood of Abuse. Casey Pigge's traumatic upbringing is explored, revealing a history of neglect and violence.
Murder and Arson. Casey Pigge is charged with the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend's mother.
Casey Pigge's Brutality. Witnesses describe the shocking brutality of Casey Pigge's actions in prison.
The Plea Agreement. Casey Pigge pleads guilty to murder, avoiding the death penalty due to his low IQ.
A Shocking Murder. Just days after his plea, Pigge kills again during transport back to prison.

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Can you imagine killing somebody with a box cutter?

Terry Steele reflects on Casey Pigge's brutality.

0:47WatchAug 22, 2025

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85/ 100High tension

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