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Former NHL player Wade Belak hanged himself, according to a person familiar with the case....

Prosecutors said Melchert-Dinkel, of Faribault, Minn., was obsessed with suicide and hanging and sought out potential victims on the Internet. When he found them, prosecutors said, he posed as a female nurse, feigned compassion and offered step-by-step instructions on how they could kill themselves.

The man suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults in at least four states over 12 years tried to hang himself in his cell, but survived and was treated at a hospital, police said.

A bereaved Alexander McQueen left a note, then hanged himself in his apartment on the eve of his mother's funeral, a coroner's inquest said Wednesday, giving the cause of the fashion designer's death as asphyxiation and hanging....