Report: convicted Arizona serial killer had stockpiled pills months before 2013 suicide
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A convicted serial killer who committed suicide in an Arizona prison last year was hoarding antidepressants from a fellow inmate in the months before his death, according to a state prison investigation.
An Arizona Department of Corrections report released this week says the inmate gave 40-year-old Dale Hausner four to five amitriptyline pills a week over a two-month period at a Florence prison.
According to documents, the unidentified inmate told the Inspector General's Office that Hausner said he was having trouble sleeping.
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The inmate says he thought Hausner was taking the pills as he received them.
Hausner was convicted of killing six people and attacking 19 others in a series of random shootings in metropolitan Phoenix in 2005 and 2006.
In June 2013, he was found unresponsive in his cell.