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Matthew Lester

Case from Cleveland, OH dated Apr 11, 2003

Victim Details

Matthew Lester

Male

Cleveland

OH

2003-04-11

24

Matthew

Lester

07/04/2026

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Matthew Joseph Lester, a 24-year-old male from Solon, Ohio, was remembered publicly after his sudden death in the Cleveland area in April 2003. Online memorial and cemetery records list his birth date as March 25, 1979, and his date of death as April 12, 2003, while the information provided for the case states that he died on April 11, 2003. The publicly available obituary does not give his race or ethnicity and does not explain what happened in the hours before his death.

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