18 Facts About Clayton Fountain

Clayton Anthony Fountain was an American federal prisoner, member of the Aryan Brotherhood, and serial killer.

Clayton Fountain was the oldest of six children, having one brother and four sisters, and was named after his father, Clayton Raleigh Fountain.

Clayton Fountain recalled maternal responsibilities for cooking, ironing, serving, cleaning, and caring for his young siblings.

Clayton Fountain stole and disassembled a pistol from the ship's armory, brought it ashore, and used it to rob a Filipino guard of his shotgun.

Clayton Fountain then used the shotgun to murder his staff sergeant.

Clayton Fountain had been reprimanded recently by Staff Sergeant Wrin for wearing PT gear on the mess deck in the mess hall.

Clayton Fountain later had two years added to his sentence for aggravated assault and attempted escape.

Clayton Fountain was sentenced to life imprisonment, and was ultimately sent to the United States Penitentiary, Marion, which was at the time the highest-security prison in the United States.

Clayton Fountain murdered three prisoners and one correctional officer with a shiv while serving time at Marion, and was labeled the "Most Dangerous Prisoner" in the federal system.

Clayton Fountain died on June 21,2016, at the age of 62.

On October 22,1983, Fountain stabbed correction officer Robert L Hoffmann to death, hours after Fountain's friend and fellow Aryan Brotherhood member Thomas Silverstein stabbed another correction officer, Merle Clutts, to death at the same facility.

Clayton Fountain was moved to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.

Clayton Fountain was housed in a specially constructed confinement unit, and was allowed contact only with authorized personnel.

Clayton Fountain converted to Catholicism, and completed several educational courses on theology during the twenty years he spent in virtual isolation.

Clayton Fountain remotely earned an associate degree in business and a bachelor's degree in philosophy and business from Ohio University, and earned a Catholic Catechetical Diploma and began a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from Catholic Distance University.

Clayton Fountain developed ties with an order of Trappist monks, and was accepted posthumously as a lay brother after his death from a heart attack in 2004.

Clayton Fountain committed the murders of Chappelle and Smith with fellow inmate Thomas Silverstein.

Clayton Fountain was convicted of manslaughter for Stewart's slaying, whom he killed alongside Hugh Colomb.