A decade after he was sentenced to prison in 2008, Egidius Schiffer’s lifeless body was discovered by corrections officers at Bochum prison (per Metro). His official cause of death would later be ruled to be from cardiac arrest. Nothing unusual about that, in and of itself. A heart giving out is a pretty common way to go.
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What makes Schiffer’s death so bizarre is the cause of the fatal heart attack. When he was found, an electrical cord was connected to various body parts and left plugged into the wall. Using the cord from the lamp in his cell, prison spokeswoman Candida Tunkel said that Schiffer “wound it around his nipples and his penis and stuck the end in a power socket.” The surge of electricity proved to be more than Schiffer’s heart could handle, killing the convicted murderer and rapist. Despite the odd circumstances, an investigation into Schiffer’s death ruled that it was neither foul play nor suicide.
