NBC 10 I-Team: Craig Price threatens guards, mentions murders

Through court documents, the NBC 10 I-Team has learned that four-time confessed murderer, Craig Price, threatened prison guards in Florida and made mention of his gruesome crimes of the late 1980s.

"I'm going to kill every officer I can get my hands on, just like I killed those little kids," said Price, according to a disciplinary report.

Now 41-years-old, Price has been behind bars for 26 years.

In 1989, he was only 15, but bulky and 280 pounds when he confessed to four murders in his Warwick neighborhood.

Joan Heaton and her two daughters, 10 year old Jennifer and eight year old Melissa were savagely killed with kitchen knives in their Buttonwood home. Jennifer was stabbed 62 times.

Police found the murder weapons in a shed behind Price's home.

He was less than remorseful, later admitting to the unsolved murder of neighbor Rebecca Spencer two years earlier, when Price was only 13.

Price was not tried as an adult because he was so young when the crimes were committed. State law has since been changed. He was free to be released on his 21st birthday, but instead was sentenced for contempt after refusing to undergo psychiatric testing.

His time behind bars hasn't gone smoothly. Outrage erupted when video surfaced of him, at the time, in the state training school, rapping about killing a cop. He was shipped to Florida in 2004, like other high profile inmates, and he's violated his probation a number of times.

In 2009, Price stabbed a prison guard with a homemade weapon. Rhode Island prosecutors have closely watched Price from afar. Each time he gets into trouble, he violates probation and extra time could be tacked onto to his overall sentence.

Price was denied parole in March, just months after his latest incident. Parole Board Administrator Matthew Dengnan said this was the fourth time Price has been denied.

The NBC 10 I-Team reviewed a December report from the Florida Department of Corrections at Suwannee. A correctional officer there said Price spit on him and made multiple threats, including the reference to the murders in the 1980's.

A spokesperson for the Rhode Island Attorney General said two motions have been filed in court painting Price as a probation violator. However, those motions have not been heard as of yet.

The Department of Corrections told the I-Team that Price will finish his Rhode Island sentence in 2018, but will then serve two-and-half-years on a Florida charge for assaulting a correctional officer.

At a minimum, Price stands to be released in late 2020, but the assault incidents in 2009 and 2014 could add extra time to Price's Rhode Island sentence.