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Tina Ketcham

died March 11, 2020 · Linn County Jail, Linn County, Oregon

Tina Ketcham was held at the Linn County Jail in Albany, Oregon, from late February 2020. On the morning of March 11, 2020, corrections deputies found her hanging in her cell during a security check, and paramedics pronounced her dead. Linn County Sheriff Jim Yon described her death as an apparent suicide. The Benton County Sheriff's Office and the Linn County Medical Examiner are investigating the death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. Linn County Sheriff Jim Yon described the death as an apparent suicide by hanging.

Reported by: Linn County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Jim Yon) (the agency that held her). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held her.

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