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Coroner's Report Confirms Castro's Suicide

A final report by the Franklin County Coroner confirms Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro died by hanging himself in his prison cell. Jan Gorniak says Castro was unresponsive when prison guards found him the evening of September 3rd and prison medical staff tried unsuccessfully to revive him. No drugs were found in Castro's system.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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