The Man in the Glass Cell: Robert Maudsley
There is a cell under Wakefield Prison that was built for one man. Bulletproof glass. A cardboard chair. Food passed through a hatch. The prisoner inside has killed four people — three of them after the state had already locked him up.
In 1974, twenty-year-old Robert John Maudsley walked into a London police station after killing a man who had shown him photographs of abused children. Sent to Broadmoor, he killed again. Moved to Wakefield, he killed two inmates in a single afternoon and told an officer they would be two down on the roll call. The papers named him Hannibal the Cannibal. The…
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