No, no, not Fidel, that other one:
Ohio captor who held 3 for years kills self
While in police custody?
Certainly there are some questions that need to be asked.
"Report questions Castro’s suicide; Suggests death due to autoerotic asphyxiation" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins | Associated Press, October 11, 2013
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro’s death by hanging in his prison cell may not have been suicide after all but an ill-fated attempt to choke himself for a sexual thrill, authorities said in a report issued Thursday.
That's the best excuse for his murder you guys could come up with?
I mean, don't worry. It's not like police are ever held accountable in this country. They will investigate and absolve themselves as always.
The report also said two guards falsified logs documenting the number of times they checked on Castro.
What more is there to say regarding authority? A cover-up report with a limited hangout.
Castro, 53, was found hanging from a bedsheet Sept. 3 just weeks into a life sentence after pleading guilty in August to kidnapping three women off the streets, imprisoning them in his home for a decade, and repeatedly raping and beating them.
The report, from Ohio’s prison system, raised the possibility that Castro died as a result of autoerotic asphyxiation, in which people achieve sexual satisfaction while choking themselves into unconsciousness.
That sounds so theoretical, doesn't it?
Castro’s pants and underwear were around his ankles when he was found, the report said.
He didn’t leave a suicide note, a full psychological evaluation had found no sign he was seriously mentally ill or contemplating suicide, and investigators could find no reason he would have taken his own life, according to the report.
Uh-oh.
In fact, the day Castro died, the warden had recommended he serve his time apart from the other inmates, an option Castro expressed interest in, the investigation found.
The findings were forwarded to the Ohio Highway Patrol ‘‘for consideration of the possibility of autoerotic asphyxiation,’’ the report said.
The Highway Patrol said it would have no comment pending the release of its own investigation.
Franklin County coroner Jan Gorniak, who classified Castro’s death as a suicide last week, said Thursday that her office was not told his pants were down. But she said she stands by her finding of suicide.
This whole thing has sickened me as it leaves law enforcement with its pants down.
Surveillance video indicates guards didn’t do at least eight required checks on Castro the afternoon and evening before his death and falsified the logs, the report said. Two checks were done just before Castro died.
Hmmmmmmmm!!
So WHO TIED HIM UP to make it look like some weird suicide?
The report also said staff failed to make sure Castro watched a suicide prevention video when he arrived in August.
He didn't need to.
Similar allegations of falsified logs have been made against two other guards in the Aug. 4 suicide of a death row inmate just days before he was to be executed.
That would be the Slagle case? And twice is a pattern, isn't it?
After Thursday’s report came out, the prison system announced that supervisors will conduct random checks at all prisons to make sure guards are doing their rounds.
Castro’s lawyer brushed off the suggestion of autoerotic asphyxiation and said the prison bears responsibility for his death.
‘‘Castro committed heinous and intolerable crimes that required lifetime punishment, but correctional facilities are still responsible for protecting the health and safety of all of the inmates,’’ defense attorney Craig Weintraub said in an e-mail.
He's right, although no one is going to care that the cops killed this piece of s***.
The prison guards’ union accused the state of scapegoating employees instead of dealing with overcrowding and violence behind bars.
In court, Castro blamed his problems on an addiction to pornography. He described himself as a sex addict and said: ‘‘I’m not a monster. I’m sick.’’
Castro’s background made him a candidate for attempting autoerotic asphyxiation, said a forensic psychologist, Bob Stinson. But Castro also was a suicide risk as he began a life sentence for a high-profile crime in an environment hostile to sex offenders, Stinson said.
Then why wasn't he on a watch?
--more--"
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Inmate’s suicide note details released" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins | AP Legal Affairs Writer, October 25, 2013
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio death row inmate who killed himself just days before his execution called his suicide inevitable in a three-page note and expressed resentment that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro got a life sentence, according to a police report released Thursday.
The inmate, Billy Slagle, also called his nearly three decades in prison torture and said he was taking his destiny into his own hands, according to the State Highway Patrol....
Even though earlier reports say there was no inkling of suicidal thoughts?
Slagle’s final two phone calls, made the evening before, appeared to be to family members and did not mention suicide or the upcoming execution, the report said.
Slagle, 44, hanged himself with a belt and shoestring that he hooked onto a conduit in his cell on death row at Chillicothe Correctional Institution, according to the report. He was scheduled to die Aug. 7 for the 1987 stabbing of neighbor Mari Anne Pope during a burglary.
--more--"
So who in Ohio law enforcement forged the f***ing thing?
Related:
"A white gunman who spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a black man and a police officer in a 1994 rampage that prosecutors called one of Ohio’s worst crimes was put to death Wednesday with the state’s last dose of its execution drug."
This is the last dose of a post on such matters.
