The eldest son of Bernard Madoff was found dead in his Soho apartment this morning. The Post reports, "Officers were called to 158 Mercer Street to respond to a report that Mark Madoff was hanging in his apartment. He was found at 7:30 a.m. by his father-in-law, said police sources." We're hearing reports that he was found hanging from a dog leash; Daily News confirms he was hanging from a dog leash and adds, "His two-year-old son was asleep in another room, sources said." Today is the second anniversary of his father's arrest. more ›

An 18-year-old Fordham student was found dead in his dorm room of an apparent suicide yesterday morning. Jacob Miller hanged himself in his room, and was discovered; he reportedly had no history of depression, and left no note. The school's president said, "His sudden loss, especially at such a young age, is heart-breaking and shocking." About 100 students gathered at a campus prayer service in honor of Miller, and one friend told the Daily News, "It doesn't make sense. He's the last kid you would think about doing this." more ›

After a prisoner reportedly hanged himself in his cell Sunday night at the 90th Precinct stationhouse using the drawstring from his shorts, an NYPD sergeant and an officer have been suspended. The prisoner, James Peterson, 46, had been arrested two hours earlier after allegedly punching and choking his girlfriend inside the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn. NYPD policy prohibits officers leaving prisoners unattended; they're also required to take away belts, shoelaces, and anything that could potentially be used for suicide. more ›

An unidentified man who was taken into police custody for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend was found hanging dead in his cell just before midnight last night. Police at the 90th precinct on Union Avenue in Williamsburg say he used the drawstring from his shorts to hang himself. According to Yeshiva News, numerous NYPD officials are one the scene, along with the NYPD Crime Scene Unit, the NYC Medical Examiner, and many media outlets are outside the station house awaiting more information. At this point, police will only say that the prisoner was a black male, age 47. But the Post nabbed a quote from one of his distraught relatives: more ›

A 32-year-old woman arrested for marijuana charges hung herself inside a Brooklyn holding cell, according to the Post. The woman "used her pants to form a crude noose, which she slung around a horizontal cell bar" inside the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville yesterday at around 6:47 pm. She was found dead about 40 minutes after she was locked in the room. more ›

From far-distant Appalachia, a story of a census worker in Clay County "found hanging on a tree and the word 'Fed' was written on his chest." In a startlingly apt bit of government idiocy, a spokesman for the FBI said they were still trying to determine "if there was foul play involved" or if his employment had something to do with his death. more ›

The Daily News reports that a 30-year-old man committed suicide—"A jogger discovered the body of Paul Zolezzi, 30, about 7 a.m., police said"— (apparently near the Brooklyn Museum in Mount Prospect Park, not Prospect Park) and left a suicide note on his Facebook status. His message read, left last night, reads, "Was born in San Francisco, became a shooting star over everywhere, and ended his life in Brooklyn......And couldn't have asked for more." His mother told the News that her son, an aspiring model and actor with a heroin addiction, was depressed after a broken engagement. She also blamed the drugs, "I would say that people get so lonely, so delusional that all they want to do is be remembered... He probably wanted to be remembered in a big way, to do it dramatically - that's what drugs will do to people." more ›