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George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the U.S., has died. Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections says Banks died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison. Montgomery County’s coroner, Dr. Janine Darby, says the 83-year-old Banks died of complications from renal neoplasm, or kidney cancer. Banks had been in prison since 1982 after shooting 14 people, and killing 13, including five of his own children during a rampage in Wilkes-Barre. At time, it was considered one of the worst mass murders in American history. He also killed four women who were the mothers of his children, plus a teenager, an 11-year-old child and a seven-year-old child. He was convicted of 13 counts of murder.