CORRECTION:   This news story, earlier, in-correctly printed that inmate Andre Maiden died at a local hospital. He was found unresponsive in his cell at the Iroquois County Jail. He was later pronounced deceased at the jail.  It was inmate Jason Fancher who died at Carle Hospital in Urbana.  * We regret any confusion this oversight may have caused.

Toxicology results will be needed before a cause of death will be determined for 24-year-old Andre Maiden and 47-year-old Jason Fancher of Milford. Both men were Iroquois County Jail inmates who died this week while in custody.

Maiden was found unresponsive in his Watseka cell Wednesday morning. He was pronounced dead later. An autopsy was completed today (Friday) in Kankakee. Iroquois County Coroner Bill Cheatum said the preliminary autopsy finding “revealed no injury documented to explain a sudden death.” Officials will await toxicology results.

Similiar finding for Fancher at a Champaign County autopsy. No physical injury of any kinds was found. Toxicology tests were ordered.

Fancher died Thursday evening at Carle Hospital in Urbana.  He was on life-support after jail personnel found him unresponsive in his cell Tuesday evening. 

Illinois State Police continue to investigate circumstances surrounding the two deaths. The Iroquois County Sheriff's Office requested the State Police probe.

Maiden was jailed for a homicide last November following the stabbing death of 22-year-old Isiah Nelson of Watseka. Fancher was in jail charged in last December’s murder of 54-year-old Pam Williams of Martinton. Her body was found alongside a road in rural Sheldon.

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