Friday, July 30, 1999
Prisoner's letters provide clues to suicide
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — The man who hanged himself in the Kenton County Jail this week was apparently distraught over a woman.
Letters found by investiga tors in Richard Doyen's cell indicated that the mother of his children had recently married someone else — and sent him a copy of the marriage certificate, Kenton County Police Detective Chris Haddle said.
He also found letters written by Mr. Doyen that said he was considering killing himself. They were in a mesh bag in which inmates keep their belongings.
Mr. Doyen was found late Monday hanging from a bed sheet. He was in an isolation cell, but not because jail officials had reason to think he might hurt himself, Detective Haddle said.
Mr. Doyen had been transferred there because he had been caught making phone calls to a woman who did not want to be bothered by him. She complained to the jail, he said.
“The jail had no inclination that he might commit suicide,” Detective Haddle said, and therefore Mr. Doyen was not on suicide watch.
Mr. Doyen, 34, of Newport, had been sentenced last week to two years for violating probation on drug charges.
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