Netflix docuseries The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga chronicles the crimes of Mississippi man James Everett Dutschke.
Where Is James Everett Dutschke in 2024?
As stated by the U.S. Department of Justice, Dutschke pled guilty on January 17, 2014, to one count of developing and possessing ricin, and three subsequent counts of mailing threatening letters laced with the substance.
On May 19, 2014, Dutschke was slapped with a 300-month (25-year) prison sentence for his crimes and will serve a term of five years supervised release.
Just over a week later on May 27, The Washington Post revealed Dutschke had been slapped with a 20-year sentence in unrelated charges of inappropriately touching three of his martial arts students.
The fondling charges will be served concurrently to his 25 years for the ricin letters and will be followed by a 25-year suspended sentence.
53-year-old Dutschke is now imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be released on August 15, 2034 (via the Federal Bureau of Prisons).
The Lee County Courier reported in 2015 that Dutschke had been placed in solitary confinement after one of his fellow inmates claimed he was attempting to have one of the lead FBI agents in his case killed.
Another court filing stated he attempted to have a fellow inmate's girlfriend manufacture ricin to once again mail it to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker.
In response, Dutschke stated, “The federal prison system should not hold him in solitary confinement because there is no evidence he is an FBI threat.”
The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga is streaming now on Netflix.
