Killer of Bloomingdale’s Mistress Dies in Prison
The man who in 1983 bludgeoned to death Vicki Morgan, the former mistress of millionaire Alfred Bloomingdale, has died in a prison hospital at Chino.
Marvin Pancoast, 42, died of “cardiopulmonary arrest with wasting syndrome associated with malignant viral syndromes,” said Lt. Kevin Peters, a spokesman for the California Institution for Men.
Pancoast had been treated at the prison hospital in a ward for patients infected with the AIDS virus, said Carl Morrow, a San Bernardino County deputy coroner. “It’s my understanding that he was HIV-positive and had pneumonia,” Morrow said.
Morgan, a former model, was found dead in the condominium she and Pancoast shared in Studio City. She had been beaten with her son’s baseball bat. Pancoast was found guilty of the murder of Morgan and sentenced in July, 1984, to 26 years to life in prison.
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