Paul William Reardon
Paul Reardon, of Ephrata, was held at Lancaster County Prison in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. According to LancasterOnline, a routine check of his cell on February 1, 2022 found him unresponsive, and he was taken to Lancaster General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on February 5. Warden Cheryl Steberger told a prison board that he had hanged himself, and the death had earlier been ruled a suicide. Lancaster city police are investigating the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Lancaster County Prison warden told the prison board that Paul hanged himself, and the prison reported his death to the state as a suicide.
Reported by: Lancaster County Prison (the agency that held him); Warden Cheryl Steberger (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.