Ricky Wassenaar has been confounding law enforcement — and journalists — for decades.
Most recently, Wassenaar claims to have killed several fellow inmates in a Tucson prison. He was already in the midst of serving 16 consecutive life sentences for various crimes including armed robbery and sexual assault.
Not long before the murders he claims to have committed, Wassenaar had been moved out of maximum security. The deaths were one of several recent incidents that prompted a legislative inquiry into detention policies at the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry…