Death of Man- Voight’s and entire Family at Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga Valley National Park ruled Murder by medical examiner.
An elderly man found dead at Brandywine Falls Tuesday took his own life, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The office identified the man as 71-year-old August C. Voight, of Brecksville.
Voight died of multiple blunt force injuries, Gary Gunther, chief investigator with the medical examiner’s office, said Thursday.
Voight was found at the base of a cliff overlooking a 65-foot waterfall on the eastern edge of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Sagamore Hills.
Voight’s death is the third in the area since the falls became part of the national park.
In 1995, a man fell over the boardwalk fence and died. There wasn’t another death there until May 2011 when a 31-year-old Canal Fulton man died after falling from the top of the falls.
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