His mother died in December, 2010--two months after his own death at 61. He is survived by his sister.
He was convicted and sentenced to death row in 1977 by lethal injection. On May 5,1979, the United States Supreme Court ordered a stay. His sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole. He was finally free in March 1989.
He lived in his native Ohio upon his release in 1989; lived in Upstate New York; Houston, Texas area; and finally in Ohio.