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Bobby Parsons

died March 25, 2017 · McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Bobby Parsons was held at the McIntosh County jail in Oklahoma, where the sheriff's office says he hanged himself in his cell in March 2017, shortly after being returned there from an interview with investigators. He was taken to a hospital in Muskogee and then moved to a Tulsa hospital, where he died the following day, March 25. The sheriff's office describes the death as a suicide and has said nothing in these accounts about how long he was left alone in the cell before he was found.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The McIntosh County Sheriff's Office says he hanged himself in his cell shortly after being returned from an interview with investigators.

Reported by: McIntosh County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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