moved to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. He was housed in a specially constructed confinement unit, and was allowed contact only with authorized personnel. Fountain converted to Catholicism, and completed several educational courses on theology during the twenty years he spent in virtual isolation. He remotely earned an associate's degree in business and a bachelor's degree in philosophy and business from Ohio University, and earned a Catholic Catechetical Diploma and began a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from Catholic Distance University. He developed ties with an order of Trappist monks, and was accepted posthumously as a lay brother after his death from a heart attack in 2004. The book A Different Kind of Cell: The Story of a Murderer Who Became a Monk is based on his life and religious conversion. The foreword was written by Sister Helen Prejean. See also List of serial killers in the United States Thomas Silverstein References 1955 births 2004 deaths American people convicted of murder American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment American neo-Nazis American serial killers Catholics from Georgia (U.S. state) Converts to Roman Catholicism Gang members Inmates of ADX Florence Male serial killers Ohio University alumni People convicted of murder by the United States federal government People convicted of murder by the United States military People from Columbus, Georgia Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States military Prisoners who died in United States federal government detention Serial killers who died in prison custody Trappists United States Army personnel who were court-martialed United States Marines