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Bridget Moorehead

41 years old · died June 9, 2013 · Ozaukee County Jail, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

Bridget Moorehead, 41, was held at the Ozaukee County Jail in Wisconsin in early June 2013. On June 9, 2013, she hanged herself in her cell, according to an Ozaukee County sheriff's office investigation reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the investigation said she used her bedding to do so. Neither she nor another woman who died at the jail seven days earlier was on suicide watch. Investigators are reviewing whether the deaths could have been prevented.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Ozaukee County sheriff's office investigation says she hanged herself in her cell with bedding, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported it.

Reported by: Ozaukee County sheriff's office (the agency that held her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.

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