COLUMBIA, S.C. —
A 54-year-old man who killed a roommate in 1998 and a cellmate in 2002, is charged with murder in the death last month of another cell mate.
William Edward Tillman is accused of killing his cellmate, Carl Pollen Jr., at Perry Correctional Institute in Pelzer on April 29.
Tillman was convicted of the fatal stabbing of his roommate, Harry Jolley Jr., 53, at their Boiling Springs home in December 1998. Police said Tillman stabbed Jolley in the neck during an argument.
Jolley was a Dorman High School graduate with a master’s degree in English from East Tennessee State. He was an Army veteran who taught English to children of U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, GoUpstate reported.
Tillman was sentenced in 1999 to life in prison for Jolley’s murder, WIS-TV reported.
In 2002, Tillman fatally stabbed his cellmate, Michael Hodge, 37, at McCormick Correctional Institute.
Hodge was serving a 10-year sentence for property crimes in Spartanburg County
Tillman was sentenced to an additional 30 years in prison for Hodge’s murder.
Department of Corrections police said Tillman kicked Pollen in the head several times and strangled him with a bedsheet early on the morning on April 29. Pollen died about an hour later, officials said.
Pollen was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for the stabbing and beating death of Clara Payne in 1999.
Payne owned a motel where Pollen worked and lived, officials said.
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