Sex offender dies after taking pills

March 2009 Minnesota:

RED WING - A Red Wing sex offender charged with possessing child pornography died Wednesday of an apparent suicide.

Red Wing police Chief Tim Sletten said officers were called at 7:09 p.m. Monday to 425 22nd St., where a man was reportedly unresponsive after taking a large amount of pills.
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Officers found Bobby Varnado at the residence and he was transported to a medical facility. The 39-year-old died Wednesday at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester.

"It is unfortunate any time a person takes their own life," said Assistant Goodhue County Attorney Erin Kuester. "We will focus on offering counseling and mental health services for the victims and their family members."

Paul Christiano, gifted dancer and choreographer with a troublesome previous, is lifeless at 39

August 2015:

Paul Christiano was convicted in 1999 of buying baby pornography via the mail. The offense, dedicated when Christiano was in his early 20s, obliged him to register as a intercourse offender within the State of Illinois. Within the years that instantly adopted, although, he constructed a formidable profession as a dancer and choreographer in Chicago, breaking out with a 2001 choreographic work produced by the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago on the Auditorium Theatre. It was referred to as “Miracle, Interrupted.”

“I don’t assume there has ever been a greater work created by a Chicago choreographer,” John Schmitz, the founding father of Dance Chicago, stated on Monday.

On Wednesday of final week, three of his associates stated, Christiano went to the Forest Park house of his shut pal, the dancer and choreographer Autumn Eckman, for whom he was housesitting whereas Eckman was away educating in Maine. He wrote out a will and penned a observe, they stated, lay down in one of many beds, after which poisoned himself. His physique was discovered, Eckman stated, in her house on Saturday.