Suicide Prozac 05/01/1996 California Young Woman Jumps Out of Airplane at 3,500 Feet
 
 Summary:<br><br>Paragraph 1 reads: &quot;A <strong>33-year-old Carpinteria woman committed suicide while diving 3,500 feet out of an airplane</strong>, officials said Thursday.&quot;<br /><br />Paragraph 6 reads:&nbsp; &quot;&#39;She seemed like a <strong>normal person</strong>,&#39; Celeya said. &#39;She was <strong>even bubbly.&#39;&quot;<br /><br /></strong>Last paragraph reads:&nbsp; &quot;Later, officials discovered a carpet knife in a pocket within the jacke<strong>t and found a bottle of Prozac, an antidepressant drug, in her rental car.&quot;<br /><br /></strong>________________________________________________________________________<br />FATAL FALL A <strong>SUICIDE</strong>, CORONER SAYS - <br />FINDINGS SHOW CARPINTERIA WOMAN UNSTRAPPED PARACHUTE HERSELF <br />Daily News of Los Angeles (CA)<br />January 5, 1996<br />Author: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer <br />Estimated printed pages: 2&nbsp; <br /><br />A 33-year-old Carpinteria woman committed <strong>suicide</strong> while diving 3,500 feet out of an airplane, officials said Thursday.<br /><br />Preliminary Kern County coroner&#39;s reports indicate that Robin Leslie Sampson intentionally let herself out of her parachute harness during a jump Saturday. <br /><br />&quot;Everything was fine, her parachute had opened automatically as it should but then she worked her way out of it,&quot; said Bob Celeya, operations manager at the California City Skydive Center. &quot;She disassembled her chest strap, took off her gloves and helmet and undid her leg straps and fell out of her harness. It&#39;s a sad situation.&quot;<br /><br />According to Celeya, Sampson must have worked hard for two minutes to unstrap herself from the restraints. &quot;It&#39;s not an easy thing to do,&quot; he said.<br /><br />Sampson had called the Skydive Center a day before her jump to schedule it and had to sit through a three- to five-hour training seminar before being able to jump.<br /><br />&quot;She seemed like a normal person,&quot; Celeya said. &quot;She was even bubbly.&quot;<br /><br />Although this was Sampson&#39;s first jump, the training would have prepared her adequately to complete an 8-minute sky dive, he said.<br /><br />Sampson was one of three students who participated in the sky dive Saturday. She was the third jumper out of the plane carrying 21 jumpers and one pilot.<br /><br />After she had jumped, the plane reached an altitude of 15,000 feet, where the rest of the divers parachuted out.<br /><br />According to Celeya, Sampson tried to insist on wearing her jacket while she jumped, but instructors forbade her because it was too big for the harness.<br /><br />Later, officials discovered a carpet knife in a pocket within the jacket and found a bottle of <strong>Prozac</strong>, an antidepressant drug, in her rental car. <br />Memo:&nbsp; Shorter in AV edition. Also ran in SIMI and CONEJO editions. <br />Edition:&nbsp; SAC<br />Section:&nbsp; NEWS<br />Page:&nbsp; SC4<br />Index Terms: ROBIN LESLIE SAMPSON<strong>; </strong>PARACHUTE<strong>; SUICIDE; </strong>CARPINTERIA<strong>; </strong>AIRPLANE<strong>; </strong>JUMP<strong>; </strong>CORONER<strong>; </strong>PROBE<strong>; </strong>KERN COUNTY<strong>; </strong>CALIFORNIA CITY SKYDIVE CENTER <br />Dateline:&nbsp; CALIFORNIA CITY&nbsp;<br />Record Number:&nbsp; 9601010432 <br /><br />OpenURL Article Bookmark (right click, and copy the link location):<br /><a href="http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:LANB&amp;rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&amp;rft_dat=0EF76BE0796BC324&amp;svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&amp;req_dat=0FC00B934DD580D0">FATAL FALL A SUICIDE, CORONER SAYS</a><br /><br /> 
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