Inmate who murdered PC World editor killed in California prison dispute

FOLSOM, California. – The man convicted of murdering a Bay Area PC World editor was recently killed in a prison brawl.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said 40-year-old Darryl Hudson was serving a life sentence at Folsom State Prison when he died Friday, a day after getting into a fight with five other inmates.

His death is being investigated as a homicide.

Hudson was convicted of murdering publisher Rex Farrance during a burglary in Pittsburgh 15 years ago.

Farrance, a senior technical editor at PC World magazine in San Francisco, was at home with his wife on January 9, 2007, when a group of masked men kicked in the front door, beat his wife with a pistol and shot Farrance in the chest before stealing the couple's gun safe, weed and a laptop.