Died in jail or a lockup
Leonard Harvey
Leonard Harvey, 25, died at the La Crosse County jail in Wisconsin on April 5, 2006. The record here says he hanged himself with a bed sheet, tied to a metal box around a smoke detector in his segregation cell. Before his death he had written "Just believe in me" on his cell window, a line that people who knew him may remember. The account comes from a Prison Legal News report and does not include any statement from the sheriff's office or his family.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. He hanged himself with a bed sheet from a metal box around a smoke detector in his segregation cell.