Rajib Mitra?s lawyer said Monday that if Mitra had intended to kill himself in the Dane County Jail, he showed no signs of it during a meeting to talk about Mitra?s appeal just hours before Mitra committed suicide on Friday.
….Mitra was a 24-year-old UW-Madison graduate student in 2003 when he was charged in U.S. District Court in Madison with jamming Madison police radios. At the same time, he was dating a 16-year-old girl whom he had met in an Internet chat room.
When Mitra’s computer and radios were seized as part of the radio jamming investigation, police found that portions of the computer’s hard drive had been heavily encrypted, keeping police from discovering their contents until 2009.