Overview

• Donald Coffel, 68, died on May 9 at the Corrigan Correctional Center, with his death deemed non-suspicious by authorities.
• Coffel was charged with the murder of his roommate, Suzanne Wormser, whose remains were found dismembered in March near their Groton apartment.
• He confessed to striking Wormser with a baseball bat, dismembering her body, and disposing of her torso in a suitcase left near Colonel Ledyard Cemetery.
• Coffel had been held on $1 million bond and made his last court appearance virtually due to terminal pancreatic cancer.
• His death in custody effectively terminates the criminal case, with the state medical examiner tasked with determining the official cause of death.