The McHenry County Sheriff’s Report on Phil Pagano’s Suicide

What follows is what the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department provided when I filed a Freedom of Information Report for the report on Metra Executive Director Phil Pagano’s suicide. The farther down you got, the more interesting it gets.

One suicide note addressed to the Metra Board has been previously published here.  Others mentioned below are not included in the released information.

Any of these images can be enlarged by clicking on it. There are two images per full page.




Below you can find the report on the engineer Timothy Dwyer’s statement.

Next comes the report of interviews with Pagano’s family.


Next comes the report on the interview of RTA Board member Al Jourdan, who was accompanied by his attorney Mark Gummerson.


A Sheriff’s Deputy observed at the autopsy and took finger prints.

A diagram of the death scene was part of the report.

Reports of evidence collected is also included in the report.


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