Curtis Allen Resecker
Not found on the Texas Attorney General’s published list of deaths in custody.
Curtis Allen Resecker, 38, was found dead in his cell at the Hood County Jail in Texas on May 18, 2017. The Hood County Sheriff's Department said jailers found him around 5 a.m. and that he hanged himself, a claim made in a news release. Sheriff's officials were still investigating the death the following day. The Hood County Sheriff's Office and the Texas Rangers were said to be investigating, and the body was sent to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office for autopsy.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Hood County Sheriff's Department said he hanged himself in his cell.
Reported by: Hood County Sheriff's Department, through spokesman Lt. Johnnny Rose (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.