Adams County jail inmate kills himself after arrest following 15-year manhunt

3-29-16 Colorado:

An inmate at the Adams County jail, who was arrested last month after 15 years on the run from charges in Ohio, committed suicide on Sunday, officials say.

David Lee Skelly, 40, was being held in lieu of $1 million bail when deputies found him unresponsive in his cell.

The county sheriff’s office said in a Tuesday news release that lifesaving efforts by guards and an ambulance crew were unsuccessful. Authorities did not say how Skelly took his life.

Skelly was arrested Feb. 26 in Westminster by police and U.S. Marshals outside his workplace, the Residence Inn, after trying to flee on foot.

Southern Nevada inmate dies in cell at High Desert

8-11-15 Nevada:

A 44-year-old prisoner serving time in Southern Nevada died on Sunday, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.

Larry Royal, committed from Clark County on June 19, died in his single cell at High Desert State Prison, the department of corrections said. His cause of death will be released by the Clark County coroner's office.

Royal was serving two consecutive sentences of 96 to 240 months each for attempted sexual assault and attempted lewdness with a minor. ..Source.. by Ricardo Torres

Duchesne County Jail inmate waiting for sentencing found dead by apparent suicide

9-24-15 Utah:

DUCHESNE, Utah — A Duchesne County Jail inmate has been found dead by apparent suicide days after he was convicted.

The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/1LPeM1h ) that 60-year-old Michael Alan Baker, of Duchesne, was found unresponsive Tuesday in the shower area of the jail.

Duchesne County Sheriff's Lt. Jeremy Curry says the death appears to be a suicide.

Baker was convicted on Sept. 16 of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony; lewdness by a sex offender, a third-degree felony; and lewdness involving a child by a sex offender, a third-degree felony. He was scheduled to be sentenced in October. ..Source.. by Daily Journal

Soldier turned rapist found dead in prison: Officials suspect suicide

2-18-2014 Kentucky:

Steven Dale Green, an Army private convicted of gang-raping an Iraqi 14-year-old girl and killing her family, died in an Arizona prison in what officials suspect was a suicide.

A former soldier, sentenced to life for raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family, died in an Arizona prison over the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide.

Steven Dale Green was the first American soldier charged and convicted under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act — a law signed in 2000 that gives the federal government jurisdiction to pursue criminal cases against American citizens and soldiers for acts committed in foreign lands.

The federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman John Stahley said staff members at the federal penitentiary in Tucson, Ariz., found the 28-year-old Green, of Midland, Texas, unresponsive in his cell on Saturday. Stahley said Green's death is being investigated as a suicide.

Vermont child molester dies in prison

2-14-2013 Vermont:

BRADFORD, Vt. - A trusted teacher who turned out to be a child molester died in jail Saturday. How he died remains a mystery. Bringing up his name in the town of Bradford Wednesday night made many people uneasy.

"If he had a heart attack or anything I'm not sorry for him. He went to jail for a reason and you have to do your time," said Candy Hazen.

Richard Foster worked at Bradford Elementary School for more than a decade when he did the unthinkable. The sixth grade teacher was convicted of sexually assaulting two students and using them to make porn at his Bradford home. Because of his criminal past, news of his death didn't upset Brandon Audet, one of Foster's former students.

"I'm not really too shocked. He was a sex offender so he deserved it in a way I guess," Audet said.

Foster was serving a 25 year sentence in federal prison when he died Saturday.