Died in jail or a lockup
Bill Long
Bill Long, 51, was found dead early on a Sunday in the Newton County jail in Arkansas, where he was being held. Authorities said he died by hanging and were investigating the death as a suicide. The report placed his death among four jail suicides in north Arkansas over about three weeks.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Authorities say he died by hanging in the Newton County jail, and investigators treated the death as a suicide.
Reported by: Newton County jail officials and county authorities (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.