Samuel See
Samuel See was an assistant English professor at Yale, and friends, colleagues and former students considered him a brilliant writer and academic. On the morning of November 24, 2013, he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Union Avenue Detention Center in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was being held. The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's autopsy attributed his death to acute methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication and also found that he had suffered a heart attack in the days before he died. As of January 2014, the New Haven Police Department's investigation was still pending and the Judicial Department had an internal review underway.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The Connecticut Office of Chief Medical Examiner's autopsy found acute methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication.
Reported by: Connecticut State Office of Chief Medical Examiner (medical examiner or coroner).