Joseph Agofsky Dead at 46

[Zoneboy]

Figure in drowning death of banker dies in prison.

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ANDERSON, Mo. - A Missouri man with ties to the brutal drowning death of a Grand Lake area banker in 1989 died in a North Carolina federal prison earlier this month, according to federal prison records.

Joseph Anthony Agofsky, 46, died March 5, according to Anderson-based Ozark Funeral Homes. A private ceremony was held last week, a funeral home representative said.

Agofsky and his brother, Shannon, were convicted of abducting Dan Short on Oct. 6, 1989, and driving him to a bank in Noel, Mo., where he was forced to open the vault. The brothers stole about $71,000.

Noel is located about 22 miles east of Grove.

Prosecutors said that after the brothers took the money, they drove Short to Grand Lake where they bound the banker's hands and feet with duct tape, taped him to a wooden chair weighted with chains and a concrete block, and dropped him from Cowskin Bridge into the lake.

Short drowned and his body was found five days later. Both men received a federal life sentence on robbery charges.

Shannon Agofsky was convicted in Oklahoma for Short's slaying, but jurors did not convict Joseph Agofsky for the death. Prosecutors declined to try him a second time.

Shannon Agofsky is on death row in Terra Haute, Ind., for the stomping death of an inmate while he was incarcerated in a Texas prison.

[1990 UM fan]

Good riddance I say. Dan Short died a horrible death and the less his killers spend time on this earth, the better.

[ScaryFog]

Thanks for the update, and I agree, good riddance. One less maniac sucking up the oxygen.

[dks64]

*claps* Good. One less monster in the world.