Daniel A. Staggs was 40 when he was found stabbed to death in 1986 inside Cell Block 4 at the Southern Michigan Institution near Jackson. Staggs was serving a life sentence for armed robbery at the time. The killing was not described as a spontaneous attack but as a murder-for-hire carried out inside the prison.

Anthony Guy Walker, a fellow inmate with a history of violence, was identified as the person who ordered Staggs’s killing. For years the identity of the actual stabber remained unclear and the case grew cold. Decades later Walker confessed to ordering Staggs’s death during unrelated murder proceedings and prosecutors agreed not to prosecute him specifically for the prison stabbing as part of a deal.

Who knew Daniel Staggs inside the Southern Michigan Institution and can add detail about his time there or the events leading up to 1986?