Deaths in Custody
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Adam Lynn Wiley

47 years old · McLennan County Jail, McLennan County, Texas

Adam Lynn Wiley, 47, died while held in the McLennan County Jail in Texas, according to jail officials, as relayed to a prosecutor by Assistant District Attorney Will Hix. Jail officials attributed his death to cancer. Wiley had been receiving chemotherapy, and a court hearing he missed was linked to a chemotherapy appointment. Prosecutors reportedly planned to dismiss a pending case after his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Jail officials, as relayed by Assistant District Attorney Will Hix, said he died of cancer.

Reported by: McLennan County Jail officials (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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