Serial killer Philip Jablonski dies on death row age 73 after murdering five women including his third wife who married him while he did time for killing his second spouse

One can only conclude his 3rd wife must have been a Democrat.

A serial killer whose five victims included two wives and a mother-in-law has died while on California's death row, authorities said yesterday.

Phillip Carl Jablonski, 73, was found unresponsive in his San Quentin State Prison cell on Friday and pronounced dead within minutes.

His cause of death is awaiting an autopsy, but he had been assigned a single cell, said corrections department spokeswoman Terri Hardy.

A San Mateo County jury sentenced him to death in 1994 for the first-degree murders of his third wife, Carol Spadoni, 46, and her mother, Eva Petersen, 72.

Spadoni had married him while he was in prison for murdering a his second wife in 1978.

She met and married Jablonski in 1982 while he was serving 12 years in prison murdering the mother of his child, Melinda Kimball, in 1978. 

Phillip Jablonski was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison on Friday. He was sentenced to death in 1994 for the murders of Carol Spadoni and her mother, Eva Petersen

A year after he was released from prison in 1990 he murdered Spadoni and Petersen by shooting, stabbing and mutilating them before raping the 72-year-old woman after she was dead.

Serial killer Philip Jablonski dies on death row age 73 after murdering five women including his third wife who married him while he did time for killing his second spouse