Shankadelic's The Hole: Comprehensive Information on the Cast, Crew, Characters, and Episodes of Oz, HBO's fan favorite prison drama

A tally of every character that has ever died on Oz, both inside and outside the walls of Oswald State Correctional Facility, Level Four. Includes inmates, staff, family members, and everyone else, as well as flashback crimes. Whether it's shown or just referred to, it'll be in this section. So sit back, relax, and take a stroll down memory lane.

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The Victim: unnamed C.O.
The Murderers: himself (and in effect Ryan O'Reily, who left the gas on, albeit unknowingly)
How: lit a match while the gas was on, causing a massive explosion and his death, obviously
Where: cafeteria
Why: n/a
Co-Conspirators: none

215

between Episode Forty and Forty-One (any other fatalities from the gas explosion not listed here, since it was not mentioned on the show)

216-219

Episode Forty-One (any other fatalities from the bus accident not listed here since it was not mentioned on the show)

The Victims: Eugenia Hill (Augustus' mother), Annette Osorio (Morales' sister), Sonsyrea Arif (Zahir's wife), Carrie Schillinger (Vern's daughter-in-law)
The Murderers: a combination of the truck driver and the bus driver
How: truck driver fell asleep and veered into the bus' lane, causing the bus driver to swerve off the road and tumble down a hill
Where: outside, about a  twenty minute drive from Oz
Why: n/a
Co-Conspirators: none
The Victim: some woman
The Murderer: Chucky Pancamo
How: zipped inside a body bag, she was thrown into a river, where she suffocated or drowned
Where: on a bridge
Why: part of a mob hit, no doubt 
Co-Conspirators: none

220

shown in Chucky Pancamo's flashback, Episode Forty-Two

221

Episode Forty-Two

The Victim: Jim Burns
The Murderer: Jazz Hoyt
How: snapped his neck
Where: the gym
Why: Burns was trying to kill him
Co-Conspirators: none
The Victim: Jaime Velez
The Murderer: Carmen "Chico" Guerra
How: repeatedly slammed his head against a brick wall
Where: in the showers
Why: seeking Alvarez's approval, Velez was trying to kill Guerra
Co-Conspirators: none

222

Episode Forty-Four

 

223

Episode Forty-Four

 

The Victim: Li Chen
The Murderer: Cyril O'Reily
How: stabbed him repeatedly
Where: Em City
Why:

Cyril was trying to protect his brother Ryan

Co-Conspirators: Jai Kenmin, though his initial plan was for Li to kill Ryan
The Victim: some guy
The Murderer: Frank Urbano
How: died from either the gun shot or falling down from the water tower
Where: by a water tower
Why: unknown
Co-Conspirators: none

224

shown in Francis "The Fixer" Urbano's flashback, Episode Forty-Four

225

shown in Greg Penders' flashback, Episode Forty-Five

The Victim: some guy
The Murderer: Greg Penders
How: criminally negigent homicide (specifics to be added later)
Where: on the street
Why:

unknown

Co-Conspirators: none
The Victims: some guy
The Murderer: James Robson
How: stabbed
Where: on a street
Why:

unknown

Co-Conspirators: none

226

shown in James Robson's flashback, Episode Forty-Six

227 & 228

in a news report, Episode Forty-Six

The Victims: two priests
The Murderer: a friend of Clarence Seroy's
How: arson (the church was burned down and they were trapped inside)
Where: Father Mukada's church
Why: Kirk wanted revenge on Mukada and got Seroy to make a call
Co-Conspirators: Seroy, Kirk
The Victim: Adam Guenzel
The Murderers: Vern Schillinger & Co.
How: fried on the electric fence surrounding Oz 
Where: perimeters of Oz
Why: Vern saw Adam as a liability once Sister Pete started getting too close to the truth
Co-Conspirator: Aryans

229

Episode Forty-Seven

230

Episode Forty-Eight

 

The Victim: Alex Rebadow, Jr. (Bob's grandson)
The Murderer: a storm
How: dying from leukemia, a power outage caused Alex's life support to go haywire
Where: hospital
Why: n/a
Co-Conspirators: none
The Victim: some guy
The Murderer: Wolfgang Cutler
How: his body buried in dirt, Cutler ran over the guy's head with his motorcycle
Where: on the outside
Why: unknown
Co-Conspirators: none

231

shown in Wolfgang Cutler's flashback, Episode Forty-Eight

232

Episode Forty-Eight

The Victim: Augustus Hill
The Murderer: Frank Urbano
How: shanked
Where: Em City
Why: Morales and Urbano planned to kill Redding. Hill protected Redding.
Co-Conspirators: none

Final total for first 5 seasons: 232 deaths

(154, if you exclude L'Italien's 38 other murders from Season One and Kosygin's 40 other murders referred to in Season Three)

(124, if you exclude L'Italien's and Kosygin's other murders AND all references and non-prisoner flashbacks, i.e. anything that wasn't a prisoner flashback or onscreen)

(65, if you exclude L'Italien's and Kosygin's other murders AND all references, AND flashback murders [prisoner and non-prisoner], leaving only murders that took place in Oz and the occasional accidental death outside)

all Body Count pages:

Seasons One, Two, Three, Four, Five

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(BY THE NUMBERS: The following thirty murders in Body Count are counted as references: #8, #14, #65, #68-69, #71-76, #78, #79, #83, #86, #87, #99, #101, #105-106, #164, #184, #186-188, #192, #208, #227-228, & #230. The number of murders in prisoner flashbacks by season: Season One: 16, Season Two: 11, Season Three: 11, Season Four: 16, Season Five: 5, totaling 59 altogether. For a complete list of ALL prisoner flashbacks, check out my Stats page.)

Did I forget someone or mess up on the details somewhere? Tell me. -- Shankadelic