Tulare County murderer linked to another fatal attack, officials say

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A antheral convicted of 2 Tulare County murders has been linked to different fatal attack, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said, this clip portion being down bars.

Officials accidental Todd J. Givens and 2 others attacked chap inmate, 57-year-old Todd S. Morgan, at Salinas Valley State Prison connected Thursday. The men were extracurricular successful the recreation gait erstwhile they approached their unfortunate with improvised weapons.

Morgan was pronounced dormant successful the yard. He had been serving a beingness condemnation for second-degree burglary and robbery, manufacturing/sale/possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition by an ex-felon, possession of a controlled substance, each arsenic a third-striker.

Todd S. Morgan

Givens, connected the different hand, was incarcerated for a much convulsive offense.

In 2001, Givens changeable and stabbed 30-year-old and 32-year-old Barry and Patreace Holstone aft luring them to his Tulare County home.

According to officials, his wife, Lacey, helped him worldly the bodies into the trunk of Patreace's car, past drove to an orchard and burned their remains.

Then, portion incarcerated successful 2020, officials accidental helium utilized “two razor blades and a sharpened, breached portion of nail clippers” to effort to slash the cervix of a correctional serviceman astatine San Quentin State Prison. The battle landed him with 2 beingness presumption connected apical of his archetypal decease enactment sentence.

Ray N. Waldron

Robert England

Todd J. Givens

Given's different 2 accomplices, 61-year-old Robert England and 51-year-old Ray N. Waldron, were besides serving beingness sentences for execution and person a past of in-prison offenses.

The 3 person been moved to restricted lodging portion Morgan's decease is investigated.