DNA trail led cops to unlikely bike theft suspect

[mimitabby]

um, you left out an important piece of information. He's dead!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...le_thefts.html

Longview podiatrist charged in bicycle thefts commits suicide

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONGVIEW, Wash. -- A popular podiatrist who was charged with stealing about $55,000 worth of expensive racing bicycles in Washington, Oregon and Utah has committed suicide at a hospital.

According to a police report, Jacob J. Bos, 35, hanged himself Friday night in his room in the psychiatric ward of St. John Medical Center at Longview. Two certified nursing assistants found his body Saturday morning, police reported.

Bos, 35, had been released on $5,500 bail while awaiting trial in Cowlitz County Superior Court on nine counts of first-degree possession of stolen property and three counts of trafficking in stolen property.

He was admitted to St. John Medical Center on Feb. 7 after attempting to kill himself by overdose, according to a police report. Bos also tried to commit suicide on Jan. 22 after being questioned by Seattle police, cutting his forearm and trying to drive into the Kalama River.

A hospital spokesman said Sunday he could not comment on procedure with patients who have previously attempted suicide.

[IFjane]

Oh my - what an unbelievable story! This guy was truly sick......

[F8th637]

Oh wow, goodness! I guess he was finally able to do himself in. Thanks for the follow-up directly from Seattle.

[rij73]

Incredible! What a strange story...

[Zen]

Wow. just wow.

We make potential adopters leave their drivers license when they take a dog out for a test walk

[MM_QFC!]

This is, understandably, an active topic of discussion on Seattle area boards...and many wonder, as I do, why a facility supposedly specializing in treating psychiatric illness would allow a patient - especially one who has recently made several known attempts to take his own life and who is in BIGtime professional and legal trouble - to be alone with the means to hurt himself? He hung himself with a belt??? Come-on people??!!!

[MM_QFC!]

Wow. just wow.

We make potential adopters leave their drivers license when they take a dog out for a test walk

Yep, it seems that they've unfortunately learned to not be so trusting...

..."We assume better of people. Now, I don't care if it's my brother. It's 'Sign here, give me the driver's license and credit card.' "

[Running Mommy]

HOLY SMOKES!!!

And yeah, WHY would the hospital let him have a BELT??!! OY! They let him take the easy way out by killing himself...
Of course there is the upside of the tax payers not having to pay for the trial and housing him in jail...

[mimitabby]

and he won't be stealing any more bikes!

[IFjane]

HOLY SMOKES!!!

Of course there is the upside of the tax payers not having to pay for the trial and housing him in jail...

The thinning of the herd....

[Lifesgreat]

um, you left out an important piece of information. He's dead!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...le_thefts.html

Longview podiatrist charged in bicycle thefts commits suicide

I had begun to tell DH about the story, but hadn't gotten to this part before a distraction came. Later, DH was reading the obituaries and said "This Dr. was young, I wonder what happened to him." It was Dr. Bos. I told him the rest of the story.

Very sad.

[MM_QFC!]

I had begun to tell DH about the story, but hadn't gotten to this part before a distraction came. Later, DH was reading the obituaries and said "This Dr. was young, I wonder what happened to him." It was Dr. Bos. I told him the rest of the story.

Very sad.

I agree, Lifesgreat, it's very, very sad...and the link to the AP article that you posted gave some more information about the whole sorry situation surrounding what my rant has been about: why the he!! was he left alone, after 2 very recent suicide attempts?? And a quick flashlight toward the bed, even if every half hour, between 8PM and 6AM? That was it??? Unbelievable!

"...A hospital spokesman said Sunday he could not comment on procedure with patients who have previously attempted suicide.

One of the nursing assistants who found the body told police she last saw Bos alive when he went to bed at 8 p.m. Friday. She said she checked on him every half hour by opening the door and shining a flashlight on his bed without knowing that pillows and blankets had been arranged on the bed to resemble a person sleeping.
The ruse went undetected until she went to awaken him at 6 a.m. Saturday. Failing to find Bos in an initial search of the room, the nursing assistant got a colleague to join her and they discovered his body hanging in the bathroom, a leather belt around his neck, police wrote..."

If there's ever a reason that I'm riding or in that area for any reason, I'll be sure to have a signed/witnessed note on me directing that, if injured, that I be taken far away from that so-called hospital/patient care facility!