Inmate Confessions: His Prison Killings

He’s notorious for causing one of the longest prison standoffs in U.S. history, and now Ricky Wassenaar is a confessed killer. In April 2025, three inmates were killed at a Tucson prison complex, and the sole suspect: Ricky Wassenaar. From prison, he calls True Crime Correspondent Briana Whitney and describes not only how he killed the other inmates, but why. He says it was justified and explains his reasoning. Meanwhile, Chief Investigative Reporter Morgan Loew investigates security concerns, and sits down with the director of the Dept. of Corrections to ask what went wrong that allowed this mass killing to happen, and if they department will be changing things moving forward.

Arizona’s Family journalists Briana Whitney and Serjio Hernandez take a deep dive into both unsolved and solved cases around Arizona — retracing steps, uncovering new evidence, and revealing new theories from those involved in the investigations.