April 19th, 2018 by WCBC Radio
The convicted child sex abuser found dead in his jail cell hours after being named in the 2000 disappearance and death of his victim’s mother died of suicide, WTOP has learned.
The autopsy conducted by Maryland’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner found Fernando Asturizaga, 51, hanged himself, according to Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
On April 12, Asturizaga was identified by Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger as a person of interest in the case of Alison Thresher, who vanished 18 years ago. Asturizaga was serving a nearly 170-year prison sentence for sexually abusing Thresher’s daughter Hannah over several years, starting in 1999.
About 11 hours after being identified in Thresher’s death, Asturizaga was found dead in his cell at the Western Correctional Institution, in Cumberland, Maryland.
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