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Dykes, Heather

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Profile written August 23, 2026

Current Position Deputy Warden Of Administration Mcrae Women’s Facility
Salary $39,180 2025 · state payroll
Deaths Under Their Watch 4 during their tenure

This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.

Tenure Summary

Heather Dykes’s career record moves through non-leadership roles at Dooly State Prison — Financial Ops Generalist 2 in 2023 and Accounting Technician 3 in 2024 — then an Accounting Technician 3 posting in 2025 without a listed facility, before appointment as Deputy Warden of Administration at McRae Women’s Facility effective August 16, 2025. GPS records attribute four deaths to her facility-leadership tenure, all at McRae Women’s Facility. No lawsuits naming Dykes as a defendant appear in the structured record.

What happened on their watch

Dooly State Prison — financial staff (2023–2024)

Dykes held staff-tier financial positions at Dooly State Prison from January 2023 through December 2024. GPS records attribute no deaths to those postings. The Dooly-specific incident reports, contraband cases, and intel allegations in the provided record are dated 2025–2026 and do not overlap her tenure there.

McRae Women’s Facility — Deputy Warden of Administration (2025-08-16 to present)

GPS records show four deaths at McRae Women’s Facility during Dykes’s tenure as Deputy Warden of Administration. The decedents named in the deaths-during-tenure record are Beverly Suzannne Sipple, 59, with incident date March 16, 2026; Kristal Lyn Layne, 55, May 10, 2026; Shannon Michelle Rush, 43, May 16, 2026; and Chasity King, 26, May 18, 2026. All four are logged with cause category 6 in GPS records. Two entries carry notes indicating they were auto-promoted from user reports: Rush from report GPS-DEATH-2026-D61CA and King from report GPS-DEATH-2026-882AA. The structured record contains no lawsuits against Dykes and no intel reports, news mentions, or systemic findings specific to McRae Women’s Facility during this period.

Sources

  • GPS records — personnel and position history for Heather Dykes, death attribution totals, and deaths-during-tenure entries for McRae Women’s Facility.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.

Positions Held

TitleFacilityTenure
Deputy Warden of AdministrationMcRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY2025-08-16 → present
ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN 32025-01-01 → present
ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN 3DOOLY STATE PRISON2024-01-01 → 2024-12-31
Financial Ops Generalist 2DOOLY STATE PRISON2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22
FINANCIAL OPS GENERALIST 2DOOLY STATE PRISON2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31

Deaths attributed during tenure

4 people died at facilities under Dykes, Heather's leadership.

DateDecedentAgeFacilityRole at time
2026-05-18CHASITY KING26McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITYDeputy Warden of Administration
2026-05-16SHANNON MICHELLE RUSH43McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITYDeputy Warden of Administration
2026-05-10KRISTAL LYN LAYNE55McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITYDeputy Warden of Administration
2026-03-16BEVERLY SUZANNNE SIPPLE59McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITYDeputy Warden of Administration

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