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Before suicide, inmate pleaded for end to isolation

Murder suspect feared ‘losing my mind’

By Peter Schworm

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 13, 2012

Eric Snow died as he had lived nearly every hour since he was charged with murder in 2007 - alone in his jail cell. But in the weeks before his apparent suicide Saturday, Snow pleaded with Plymouth jail officials to free him from more than four years “in the hole.’’ Snow, one of two men accused of bludgeoning two homeless men to death in Hingham in 2005, had spent more than four years in isolation, his lawyer said.

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