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Sunday evening, the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office requested OSBI investigate the death of an inmate inside the jail. Jail personnel found Dale Stanley Schmidt (d.o.b. 7/10/1957) hanging inside his jail cell. Schmidt was the only inmate occupying the cell. He was arrested and booked into the jail March 11, 2016, for lewd or indecent acts with a child under 16. The medical examiner’s office has preliminarily determined the cause of Schmidt’s death as asphyxiation due to ligature. The manner of death ruled suicide. The medical examiner’s office is also performing toxicology tests.