Matthew Glidden News Today

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We try take care of one another. but thats not the same spirit, i found, you know, with most of the inmates. >> 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 fac...

Housing unit. >> you were here at that time? >> yes. >> okay. how did you feel? >> i didnt know him that well, but i dont think he killed himself, though. >> okay. see, thats another thought. >> its definitely fishy. >> at first i thought suicide. at first i thought he ate a bunch of pills or something. and then his roommate at the time, he was still in the unit for a while. he moved out of the unit yesterday. he told us that there was something around his neck. coming up -- >> i knew he went ...

Form for the public defenders office? >> i do. >> mr. bixby, you have a right to a jury trial. >> sharon glidden says on the night of her sons death, he called his brother with a request. >> his brother said, "mom, matt wants me to call classification in the morning and name two people as his enemies so he could get out of there. one of them i do not know. but the other one was bixby. >> im going to set bond at $150,000. thank you, sir. good luck to you. >> he is dead. i know that. and theres no...

Days, and was released from jail. his cousin, kalin jenkins, completed a 20-day sentence for drug possession and was also released. and then shockingly, four days later, one of the few friends jenkins made in the jail, 29-year-old matthew glidden, was found dead in his cell. >> we had a possible suicide. its being investigated by the state law enforcement division and the local coroner. they have not given anything -- its a current investigation, so i cant give any great details on what the inve...

Doors. so we come out here and associating. >> associating. >> try to talk to them but its hard to hear through them windows, especially when its noisy out here. >> jenkins has also made friends with matthew glidden. glidden is charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor to which he has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. like jenkins, he, too, has chosen general population over protective custody. but as an accused sex offender, glidden could be in greater danger due to a code among in...

The south carolina law enforcement division. as far as assisted suicide never happened before, so this is all new to us. >> according to court documents, bixby admitted strangling glidden but said he did so at gliddens request. though any participation in a 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 entitled to a bond hearing on this new...

His cellmate, michael bixby, is also charged with sex offenses. he has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial for sexual exploitation of children. in addition, bixby served a prior prison sentence in indiana on convictions for sexual misconduct with a minor and child exploitation. >> i dont 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 gliddens death spreads through the jail, the inmate rumor mill ...

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, he was kind of melancholy. everybody couldnt really believe it, you know. i mean its kind of crazy. >> ryan johnson also knew glidden. >> someone that close -- you see that person that much, and then you just dont see them all of a sudden, and theyre...

>> associating. >> try to talk to them but its hard to hear through them windows, especially when its noisy out here. >> jenkins has also made friends with matthew glidden. glidden is charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor to which he has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. like jenkins, he, too, has chosen general population over protective custody. but as an accused sex offender, glidden could be in greater danger due to a code among inmates that says people with charges like his...