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Leonard Paradiso

65 years old · died February 27, 2008 · Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Leonard Paradiso, a 65-year-old fisherman from Revere, died on February 27, 2008, at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston while in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Sources say he had been stricken with testicular cancer. A corrections official said the death was anticipated and that there was no indication of foul play.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Department of Correction attributed his death to testicular cancer and described it as anticipated, with no indication of foul play.

Reported by: Massachusetts Department of Correction (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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