Thomas Lee Dillon was a serial killer who shot and killed five men in southeastern Ohio

Ohio

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, beginning April 1, 1989 and continuing until April 1992.

Dillon was born in Canton, Ohio

Canton, Ohio

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. He was captured in 1992 when a friend recognized a behavioral profile compiled by the FBI. Dillon was incarcerated at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, United States. The prison was constructed in 1972 and currently contains the death house for Ohio where death row inmates are executed...

 for five consecutive sentences of thirty years to life for aggravated murder. In 1998, his crimes were featured in an episode ("Human Prey") of the Discovery Channel

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's The FBI Files

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Dillon’s shooting victims were:

• Donald Welling, 35, of Strasburg, Ohio on April 1, 1989, while walking or jogging on Tuscarawas County Road 94.
• Jamie Paxton, 21, of Bannock, Ohio while deer hunting Nov. 10, 1990, in Belmont County.
• Kevin Loring, 30, of Duxbury, Mass., on Nov. 28, 1990, while deer hunting in Muskingum County.
• Claude Hawkins, 48, of Mansfield, Ohio on March 14, 1992, while fishing at Wills Creek in Coshocton County.
• Gary Bradley, 44, of Williamstown, W.Va, on April 5, 1992, while fishing near Caldwell in Noble County.

Death

On October 21, 2011, Dillon died in the prison wing at Corrections Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

, aged 61, after being ill for nearly three weeks due to an unspecified ailment.