JAILBIRDS TO CHATLINE KILLER: "YOU'RE DEAD"

"DEAD"

THE man dubbed the "Chatline Killer" because he allegedly met his victims on telephone chatlines has been forced into prison protective custody because he "felt threatened" by other inmates.

Furious at finding out about his crimes fellow prisoners have made Sonny Pierce a marked man behind bars, forcing authorities to take action to protect him. 

A prison insider revealed: "He'd not really told people why he was in, so when the other prisoners found out they were furious. If they could get to him he'd be dead.

"There is no one lower than sex criminals in jail, especially ones that attack kids and his victims were basically children."    

Pierce's attorney Nicholas Albukerk admitted his client had been put into protective custody. 

He said: “People have been getting in his face. It’s jail.”

Pierce been linked the murders of two 18-year-olds Kimika Coleman and Kiara Windon whose bodies were found strangled and dumped in Blue Island and Chicago alleyways.   He is also is accused of killing Mariah Edwards, 17, whose lifeless body appears in a sex tape found on Pierce’s computer prosecutors say.

Her body has not been found.

Cops linked him with the deaths using his DNA - taken from a 15-year-old girl who he is accused of assaulting in August 2010.

He is due back in court on May 9.