Coroner: Previously missing New Freedom woman's death ruled a suicide York Dispatch A New Freedom woman who went missing about nine days ago and whose body was found on Friday died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to York County's coroner. An autopsy on Monday morning at Allentown's Lehigh Valley Hospital determined 29-year-old Nicole Elizabeth Ebaugh died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to Coroner Pam Gay. After what was described as a thorough investigation, Gay ruled the manner of Ebaugh's death to be suicide, according to a news release issued by Gay's office on Monday afternoon. Trooper Kevin Kotchka, a state police spokesperson, has said Ebaugh's body was found Friday in the area where the search for her had been concentrated.