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Bradford Thomas Wagner

37 years old · died July 13, 2005 · Boulder County Jail, Boulder County, Colorado

Bradford Thomas Wagner, 37, worked as a real estate agent in Glenwood Springs and as a part-time snowboard instructor at Snowmass, and had lived in Aspen for several years. He was held at the Boulder County Jail, where the Boulder County Sheriff's Office said he was found hanging from his bunk shortly before 11 a.m. during what the office described as a routine security check. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Boulder Community Hospital. The sheriff's office said he apparently fashioned a noose from a sheet and had shown no sign of being suicidal, but the coroner's office was conducting an autopsy and had not yet ruled on the cause of death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Boulder County Sheriff's Office says Wagner hanged himself with a sheet from his bunk and showed no sign of being suicidal, while the coroner's autopsy was still pending.

Reported by: Boulder 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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