ME: Child Neglect Suspect Found Dead In Tulsa Jail Committed Suicide

The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner says a Chouteau woman who died at the Tulsa County Jail committed suicide.

Caitlin Lynn Lewis was found dead in her cell on October 5, 2016. 

She was arrested in September, accused of child neglect by Munchausen By Proxy, which means she was trying to make her daughter sick with medication to gain attention for herself.

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An incident report said a detention officer and a nurse went to Lewis' cell at 11:31 a.m. on October 5, 2016 to give her medication and found Lewis hanging from a sprinkler pipe by a sheet in her cell. 

According to the autopsy report released on December 19, 2016, the cause of death was asphyxia due to hanging. The manner of death is classified as suicide, the report says.