AL- ‘This is not a suicide’: Family of Dennoriss Richardson doubts the investigation into his death

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COLBERT CO., Ala. (WAFF) - A Colbert County woman claims her husband’s hanging death was not a suicide.

After five children and 20 years together, Leigh Richardson said she knew her husband, Dennoriss Richardson, better than she knew herself.

“100 percent, I know that this is not a suicide,” Leigh Richardson said.

Investigators found Dennoriss Richardson hanging at the carport of an abandoned house in Colbert County in September 2024. They said he had been missing there for a few days.

‘This is not a suicide’: Family of Dennoriss Richardson doubts the investigation into his death

After five children and 20 years together, Leigh Richardson said she knew her husband, Dennoriss Richardson, better than she knew herself.

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Video Widow, family attorney raise questions in the case of a man found hanging in Alabama

ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke to the widow of Dennoriss Richardson, who was found hanging in an abandoned Alabama house after filing a federal lawsuit against the local police department last February.

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I feel sorry for his family, but the denial is unreal

2 autopsies for Black man found hanging in Alabama produce differing conclusions

A state autopsy determined that the Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home died by suicide, according to the local sheriff.

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Richardson did not have any bodily injuries except for on his neck, and his toxicology report was normal, Shaker said. Andrew said those were “important observations.”

FBI accepts sheriff’s request to investigate hanging death | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama, who was found hanging in an abandoned house, after a request from a local sheriff amid fears among community members who accuse local law enforcement of longstanding, unchecked misconduct.

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Dennoriss Richardson pleaded guilty to drug possession in 2006 and was sentenced to five years in prison. In more than 15 years since then, court records show Richardson was arrested at least six additional times by the Sheffield Police Department, for charges ranging from disorderly conduct to robbery to assault.

None of those charges, except for a traffic violation for expired tags, resulted in a conviction, according to available court records.

In the same week that Richardson filed his lawsuit against the department, he was charged with trafficking meth. He had been arrested in a house where drugs reportedly were found.