Natrona County Coroner Jim Whipps reports a significant increase in suicides, fatal car accidents, and killings in his area. While the overall death count is similar to last year, unnatural deaths are soaring, with suicide rates reaching alarming levels.
A Wyoming community has experienced numerous “unnatural deaths” throughout the course of 2024, according to Natrona County Coroner Jim Whipps.
Whipps said the deaths are on pace to make 2024 one of the area’s worst years, but he is unsure of why the numbers are rising.The overall number of deaths in the county through August this year are the same as 2023 — 94 — but “unnatural deaths are going through the roof.” Statistics through the end of August show 20 suicides, with five in August. He said in 2023 at the same point, suicides were at 22, but the last quarter of 2023 “everything kind of dropped off the cliff for the rest of the year.”
Whipps explained, “Our county suicide rate by percentage of population is within the top realm, top four in the world. Even third-world countries and places in total chaos don’t have the suicide rate that we have in this county in the middle of Wyoming.”
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