Loskarn Found Dead After Apparent Suicide, Sheriff’s Office Says (Updated)

[brooklynite]

Source: Roll Call

Updated 12:29 p.m. | Former Senate staffer Jesse Ryan Loskarn was found dead Thursday in Sykesville, Md., in an apparent suicide, according to the local sheriff’s office.

Loskarn, the former chief of staff for Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., was residing with his parents after being released into their custody following an arrest on child pornography charges. The deadline to bring an indictment against Loskarn, originally scheduled for this month, was delayed until Feb. 10.

“At approximately 12pm yesterday, Carroll County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a private residence in the 6900 block of Kenmar Lane for a report of an unconscious male, believed to be deceased,” the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Friday. “Family members reported finding 35 year old Jesse Ryan Loskarn unresponsive in his basement where he’d been residing with family since this past December. The preliminary investigation indicates that Loskarn may have taken his own life, and his body has since been transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for Autopsy.”

Read more: http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/loskarn-found-dead-after-apparent-suicide-sheriffs-office-says/

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No fair jumping to conclusions...

[get the red out]

1. I can't say I blame him

What a horrible situation he got himself into.

[MADem]

2. I'll jump!

He was guilty of the charges....IMO:

Inspectors searching his Southeast D.C. residence recovered a portable Toshiba hard drive containing a compilation of explicit scenes which he allegedly had tried to distribute online.
In the statement of facts filed with the court, Postal Inspector Brian Bone said authorities had to use a “ram” to force entry into Loskarn’s residence after knocking, announcing they had a search warrant and receiving no response.
Loskarn allegedly placed the Toshiba hard drive on the roof of his home during the sweep of the residence. An officer watching the perimeter noticed him opening a window, which led to recovery of the device.
After the search, Loskarn agreed to cooperate with investigators, but did not admit to placing the hard drive outside. He did admit to owning a Toshiba hard drive.

[Dash87]

3. I find this form of suicide disgraceful and cowardly.

I'm sorry that he had to die - all death is tragic. However, based on the alleged information, this man was a coward until the end.

He contributed to a market that ruins lives, and tried to supply other pedophiles with the porn too. When the police were raiding his home, he allegedly tried to (and failed to) destroy his hard drive.

Now, he killed himself knowing that his parents would have to find him and that the often nameless victims would once again be denied justice.

I feel profound sadness when someone succumbs to depression. It's a tragedy. On the other hand, when someone kills themselves to avoid justice, I feel anger. It's not an act of repentance or altruism - it's a selfish act that leaves everybody else to pick up the pieces. He was as selfish in death as he was in life. As in the story of his life, his last mortal act was destructive and ruined lives.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. + a zillion. n/t

[alato]

4. REST IN HELL PERVERT

[StopTheNeoCons]

5. +1000....nt

[BetsysGhost]

7. amen

[Lucky Luciano]

22. yup. nt

[karynnj]

6. What a nightmare this has to have been for his family

Six months ago, they likely were proud that their young son was a chief of staff to a Senator. I doubt they had any reason to know of his interest in child pornography. They then took him in when these charges were made and he was fired - and then they find him after he killed himself in their home.

Obviously, he likely lived for years with the knowledge that he was doing something incredibly wrong - but it seems he could not live with the consequences of his own actions - possible jail, loss of respect, and never being able to even think of getting a position of power such as the one he had.

[brooklynite]

8. ...and wait until they try to sell the house.

[alp227]

9. Wonder if he had info about a RING. N/t

[freshwest]

10. Which he may have been more afraid of... Just jumped to a conclusion already... n/t

[global1]

11. Did He Have A Lawyer? And.....

is the lawyer bound by attorney client privilege not to talk about his client - when his client is dead?

[Octafish]

12. Dead men tell no tales. Remember John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney?

The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department

Legal Schnauzer, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The U.S. Department of Justice generated plenty of strange stories during the George W. Bush years. But one of the strangest involved John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida, who committed suicide after being caught in a pedophilia sting in Detroit.

Atchison's sad story has many connections to Birmingham and Alabama. And it raises this question: How did a guy with a shaky work record and a history of run-ins with the law get hired by the world's supposedly foremost crime-fighting organization? Did Atchison attain his lofty position because he had connections to powerful figures in the Alabama legal world?

Investigative journalist Margie Burns examines these questions, and much more, in a series of posts about the Atchison case at her blog, margieburns.com.

Burns begins with the actions that turned Atchison into a national figure in fall 2007:

This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.

A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case.

CONTINUED 'though I wish it didn't...

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/09/strange-tale-of-pedophile-in-us-justice.html

[brooklynite]

15. ...and sometimes a suicide is just a suicide

[Octafish]

20. So very true. So very true. So very true.

Like when the DC Madam died, she got a lot of official Washington out of a pickle.

Ask David Vitter.

[valerief]

21. ^^^Boom^^^

[mackerel]

13. I vaguely remember reading here on DU about 5 years ago

of a Ped Ring out of Omaha, Nebraska that supplied to a lot of men in D.C.
(I wish I had book marked it.)

[get the red out]

14. I read a book about that

"The Franklin Cover-up" by John DeCamp.

Definitely worth reading IMO.

[mackerel]

16. I think that was the book mentioned

[mackerel]

17. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3765198

This was one I found but there was even a more detailed one around 2008.

[YOHABLO]

18. I just wonder though .. could child porn be planted on someone's computer?

In today's "hacked up world'' anything is possible.

[mackerel]

23. That's always possible but the scenario I heard was that he tried to hide the

hard drive on the roof of his home when they came with the search warrant. It seems like he knew what they were looking for.

[Skittles]

24. my sympathy to his parents