Michelle Tierney
Michelle Tierney, 48, died on October 9, 2014, while held at Lowell Correctional Institution, a women's state prison near Ocala, Florida. The Florida Department of Corrections recorded the manner of death as natural, but the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating her death as an active death investigation. The Medical Examiner's Office was to determine the cause of death, and the Department of Corrections said privacy laws bar it from sharing the circumstances.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined (disputed). The Florida Department of Corrections recorded the death as natural, but the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating it as a non-natural death under the department's new policy.
Reported by: Florida Department of Corrections (the agency that held her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.