it s a miracle. i can walk again. hey you ve gotta see this. cno.n. alright, see you down there. mmm, fine. okay, what do we got? okay, watch this. do the thing we talked about. what do we say? it s going to be great. watch. remember what we were just saying? go irish! see that? yes! i m gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. detention center in charleston, there is a new development in the death of matthew glidden. his chael bixby, has been charged with playing a role in his death. inmate bixby has been charged with assisted suicide. the investigation is ongoing by the south carolina law enforcement division. as far as assisted suicide never happened before, so this is all
now the relationship between another pair of cellmates is under close scrutiny from jail officials. 24 hours earlier, matthew glidden was discovered dead in his bunk. his cellmate, michael bixby, is being questioned by authorities. inmate bixby is in lockdown. i will not allow him to be roomed with anybody else at this point in time to ensure the safety of all the inmates in the facility. thomas dempsey used to share a cell with glidden and he suspects foul play. another thing that made me a little skeptical is when he was in the room with me, he couldn t stand the wool blankets. matthew couldn t stand the wool blankets at all. that morning he was underneath the wool blanket. at the time of his death, glidden was awaiting trial on charges of sexual misconduct with a minor. accused sex offenders are often targets for violence. his cellmate, michael bixby, is also charged with sex offenses. he has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial for sexual
new to us. according to court documents, bixby admitted strangling glidden but said he did so at glidden s request. though any participation in suicide is against state law. you could get somewhere between 10 and 15 years for assisting in suicide. bixby, who is already awaiting trial on a charge of sexual exploitation of children, is still awaiting a bond hearing on this new charge. it is conducted through a video link to the courthouse where matthew glidden s mother, sharon glidden, is in attendance. all rise. you may please be seated. i am ready for michael bixby. sharon does not believe her son wanted to die. you know, if he had really, really planned there, we thought he would have tried to say good-bye a better way. do you have a copy of the form for the public defender s office?
exploitation of children. in addition, bixby served a prior prison sentence in indiana on convictions of sexual misconduct with a minor and child exploitation. i don t know how word got to the unit for it. i woke up at lunch, and everybody had known about it before the news got out or anything, so. as word of glidden s death spreads, the inmate rumor mill begins to crank up. i knew he went to court, he ain t like the news he heard. they said he came back, he hung himself. he hanged himself and his roommate just sit and let him hang himself. how did you hear that? a dude that say he been in the room with them. said the roommate let him do it. you think, damn, who was his roommate? know what i m saying? watch him hang himself. they said that he was stabbed with his spoon in the heart. i guess with enough pressure it can go in i don t know. with a charge like that, i probably would have damn near
him up. he said that when he shook him, he grabbed his leg to scare him awake. he said stiff as a board. yeah. he said it was like rolling a log over. he said he just rolled over. glidden had been awaiting trial for sexual misconduct with a minor. as far as the people that really dealt with him on a daily basis, kind of melancholy. just everybody couldn t really believe it. you know. i mean it s kind of crazy. ryan johnson also knew glidden. someone that close you see that person that much and then you don t see them all of a sudden and they re just gone, i mean, that left i think a hole in a lot of people that had at least spent some time with him. with me, i just couldn t i couldn t fathom why did he want to destroy himself, you know. i feel like the inmates felt that way, too. why why did this nobody seemed to know.