Teddy himself had been locked up for nearly 30 years after murdering multiple women.
Early on, he was shown in a cell on death row at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse.
Nuclear ambition: Under the direction of serial killer Teddy Maddox [John Glover], the cult aimed to launch a nuclear missile off a submarine and kill everyone on earth Death is the end, he wrote in his notebook. We must return our bodies to the soil. Resurrect the natural order of the planets, the universe. The end will be a beginning.
Outside Teddy s cell, a prisoner screamed as guards dragged him to the death chamber.