Died in prison
Boyd Weekley
Boyd Weekley, 49, was from South Dakota and died in November 2020 while held at USP Thomson, a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois. Prison records list hanging as his cause of death. According to prison officials, he was the only person to die in Thomson's general population rather than in the Special Management Unit. His death came less than a week after the death of another man, Badoni, at the same prison.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Prison records list the cause as hanging, and the record does not describe the circumstances beyond that.
Reported by: prison records. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.