Death
On March 30, 2002, Crutchley died in prison. Corrections officials reported on April 2, 2002, that he had been found dead in his cell at the Hardee Correctional Institute with a plastic bag over his head. The cause of death reported was asphyxiation.
Subsequent reporting around August 1, 2003 from the Florida Department of Corrections declared that the "Florida Vampire Rapist" died of autoerotic asphyxiation.
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