Roxanna Brown passed away in prison
Sad news. Southeast Asian Ceramics museum director Roxanna Brown passed away in prison after an apparent heart attack. She was being indicted for wire fraud on an ongoing investigation into smuggled antiquities from Ban Chiang turning up in Californian museums.
Indicted museum director found dead at WA federal prison
The Seattle Times, 14 May 2008
A Thailand museum director who was indicted as part of a federal investigation into looted antiquities died Wednesday at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, apparently following a heart attack.
Roxanna Brown, a 62-year-old U.S. citizen, passed away sometime around 2:30 Wednesday morning. Prison spokeswoman Maggie Ogden said an autopsy was planned.
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Brown’s brother, Fred Leo Brown of Chicago, said his sister maintained her innocence. He said that although a cause of death had not been determined, he had been told it was apparently a heart attack, which he suggested was the result of stress from the arrest.
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May 17th, 2008 at 12:07 am
[...] immediately and aggressively began to turn the tables on the officials: they pointed out that Brown had been so ill, with something resembling the flu, that her initial court appearance had been…. An autopsy was performed by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office on Wednesday. Results were [...]