Texas Man Who Decapitated Newlywed Wife Found Dead in Prison Cell

A husband who decapitated his wife only four months after their wedding was discovered dead in his Texas prison cell on Friday. 

Jared James Dicus, 24, pleaded guilty to the heinous murder of his 21-year-old wife, Anggy Diaz, in 2024, in what the New York Post called an “open-and-shut trial.” He had been sentenced to forty years in prison and his earliest parole date was in 2043. 

Per a state death report obtained by KLTV, Dicus was found hanging in his single-person cell at the Wainwright Unit in Houston County. 

Prison staff performed life-saving efforts when they discovered him, but EMS ultimately pronounced him dead at the scene before 11:00 p.m.

Dicus and Diaz got married in October 2022, despite opposition from close