MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
a division of the
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Division of Drug and Crime Control - P.O. Box 568 - Jefferson City, Mo. 65102


News Release

For further information please contact: Sergeant Erik Eidson
(573) 751-3452
01302013
January 31, 2013

EMPHASIS: Miller County Inmate Death Investigation.


Captain Sarah L. Eberhard, director of the Division of Drug and Crime Control, announces the death investigation of an inmate at the Miller County Jail.

Members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control are investigating the death of James Jensen, 22, from Eldon, Missouri. Jenson, an inmate at the Miller County Jail, was found hanging in his jail cell on January 28, 2013. Jenson was transported to the University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, where he was later pronounced dead. The Boone County medical examiner determined the cause of death to be asphyxiation.
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