Was Ex-KISS Guitarist MARK ST. JOHN Victim Of Brutal Jailhouse Justice?
Nick Schou of the Orange County Weekly reports: Was ex-KISS guitarist Mark St. John a victim of OC’s brutal jailhouse justice? A month before roughly two dozen inmates at Theo Lacy Jail viciously killed John Chamberlain in an attack that would earn national headlines and lead to a major scandal that continues to unfold, an inmate named Mark Leslie Norton told deputies he feared for his life. He asked to be moved from one part of the jail to another. Although deputies may not have recognized him, Norton is better known to most of the world by his stage name, Mark St. John; he had briefly been a guitarist for the world-famous rock band KISS in the mid-’80s until a nasty bout of arthritis forced him into early retirement. Norton, according to published reports, grew up in Garden Grove and had been living with his parents there while earning a modest income giving guitar lessons. He was booked into Theo Lacy on Sept. 14, 2006 to serve a two-week sentence after pleading guilty to possession
