Overview

• Samuel Bond Haskell IV was found dead in his Twin Towers jail cell on July 12, two days before a scheduled preliminary hearing on charges that he killed and dismembered his wife and her parents.
• Haskell had pleaded not guilty in January 2024 to three first-degree murder counts stemming from the November 2023 discovery of human remains at his Tarzana home and in an Encino dumpster.
• Authorities have not disclosed an official cause of death and are awaiting a medical examiner’s ruling.
• His death cancels the upcoming hearing and leaves the high-profile triple-murder prosecution unresolved.
• The case has intensified scrutiny of suicide-prevention measures and rising in-custody fatalities in Los Angeles County jails.