RAIFORD, FL (AP) -- A death row inmate convicted of kidnapping two Pensacola girls and killing one of them has died in prison.

The victims' relatives have just learned of the death of 45-year-old Warfield Wike earlier this month at Union Correctional Institution near Raiford.

Wike was condemned for the 1988 murder of six-year-old girl Sarah Rivazfar. He left her eight-year-old sister for dead with a slit throat.

The girls were taken from their mother's apartment. Wike was an acquaintance of the mother. She was going threw a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband.