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Article content When Lani Rye learned that a Merritt man had hanged himself less than a day after being placed in the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre, the memories came flooding back. Like Billy Strande, who died on Nov. 19, 2020, her son, Shawn Earle, was suffering from severe mental illness when he took his life in Surrey Pretrial in January 1997. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or B.C. mom who lost son in jail suicide in 1997 disturbed to ...