Video shows final seconds before inmate's death

Ninety-six seconds.

That’s how long two Brown County Sheriff’s Office employees were in the jail cell of Adult Detention Center inmate Zachary Goldson the morning he died, according to new evidence obtained by the I-Team.

Twenty-three minutes and 42 seconds.

That’s the amount of time state investigators said Goldson was alone in his cell before jail employees found him hanging from the sprinkler head.

The sheriff’s office called the Oct. 5, 2013 death a suicide.

Brown County Coroner Judith A. Varnau called it something else: a homicide by strangulation and a cover-up.

This key question – suicide or homicide – has left the county’s criminal justice system in an ongoing state of dysfunction for more than a year.

The I-Team pored through hundreds of pages of state records and hours of never-before-seen video evidence to uncover the truth:

What really happened to Zachary Goldson?

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