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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Jewell died of heart disease

Georgia's chief medical examiner says former Olympic security guard Richard Jewell died of heart disease. The 44-year-old Jewell was found dead yesterday at his west Georgia home. Jewell was wrongly linked to the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Dr. Kris Sperry says an autopsy showed Jewell had severe heart disease and essentially had a heart attack.

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