Deaths in Custody
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Christopher Wells

died 2025 · Wayne County Correctional Center, Wayne County, Indiana

Christopher Wells died in his cell at the Wayne County Jail in Richmond, Indiana, in 2025. The jail's account, as recorded in the report, is that he died by suicide, hanging himself with a bedsheet. No family, friends, or other sources describe who he was. The available reporting does not say how the suicide determination was made or whether any checks or precautions were in place before his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The article reports that Christopher Wells hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell and that the death was ruled a suicide, without naming who made that ruling.

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