Jared Wayne Maynard
Jared Wayne Maynard was 20 years old when he was held at the Routt County Jail in Colorado. A Steamboat Springs detective and Routt County Sheriff's Office investigators said he killed himself by hanging with his bedding from a second-floor railing outside his cell on October 29, 2000. Staff found him not breathing, and he was taken to a Steamboat Springs hospital and flown to Denver, where he died on October 31 after his family asked that life support be removed. The lead investigator said the investigation was essentially complete and that a final report would follow a review by prosecutors.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Sheriff's Office investigators say Maynard hanged himself with bed linen from a second-floor railing outside his cell.
Reported by: Routt County Sheriff's Office investigators (the agency that held him); Steamboat Springs Detective Robert DelValle (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.