Correctional officer in Washington prison is found dead

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A female correctional officer at a Washington state prison was strangled and an inmate who told officers he had planned to escape is under investigation, authorities said Sunday.

Jayme Biendl, 34, was discovered late Saturday night after workers at the Monroe Correctional Complex noticed her keys and radio were missing, according to a statement from the Washington State Department of Corrections. Staff at the prison immediately went to where she worked and found her unresponsive, it said.

Emergency responders declared Biendl dead at the scene shortly before 11 p.m. PT, the department said.

She had been strangled, according to Chad Lewis, a department spokesman.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/30/washington.officer.dead/index.html

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A 34-year-old inmate named Byron Scherf is currently a suspect in Biendl's death.

[Tunkamerica]

1. the victim was 34. the alleged assailant is 52

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/jan/31/inmate-suspected-in-prison-guards-death-serving/

[Tunkamerica]

2. mugshot

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Top-Stories-Photos-undated-photo-provided-Washington-State-Department-Corrections-Byron-E-Scherf/ss/705/im:/110131/480/urn_publicid_ap_org43f9714ceba948ccb117ae608f5bf6c3/

[Joanie Baloney]

3. Your link is pizza now

I mean...the photo shows pizza.

[IBEWVET]

4. Lets see...

He was serving life without parole, how to punish him now? Tell him "bad boy, don't do this again"