India, Jan. 21 -- A Texas man who brutally decapitated his wife has been found dead in his prison cell on Friday. Jared James Dicus, 24, murdered his wife, 21-year-old Anggy Diaz, just four months after their impromptu wedding. He pleaded guilty in an open-and-shut trial in 2024.

Dicus was sentenced to as many as four decades in prison, according to the New York Post. His earliest parole date was set for 2043.

Dicus was found hanging in his single-person cell at the Wainwright Unit in Houston County on Friday, a state death report obtained by KLTV stated. Prison staff found him and tried life-saving efforts, but responding EMS staff pronounced him dead just before 11 pm, per the report.

Dicus and Diaz tied the knot in October 2022. The...