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| Inmates' ruse leads to suspect's suicide |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/15/2004 |
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Three inmates planted a homemade knife in a man's cell, causing him to be moved to a segregated unit where hours later he committed suicide, authorities said last Tuesday. Manuel Gehring, who used a bedsheet to strangle himself, had been jailed on charges of killing his two children last summer. Officials believe he killed the children and buried them somewhere in the Midwest. Authorities said the other inmates had personality conflicts with Gehring and planted the piece of sharpened steel where it would be found so that he would be moved from their unit. No criminal charges against the inmates will be brought but they will be disciplined by Merrimack County (N.H.) jail authorities, Senior Assistant Attorney General Simon Brown said. "These inmates are not being held responsible for Mr. Gehring's actions in taking his own life," he said. "In fact one of the inmates has expressed remorse over what happened." Gehring, 44, was arrested in California a week after his children - Sarah, 14, and Philip, 11 - disappeared after a Fourth of July fireworks show in Concord, N.H. last year. He had pleaded innocent to first-degree murder and a trial date was set for Sept. 7. |
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