Thompson

I.

BACKGROUND

On April 28, 2022, appellants’ 21-year-old daughter Alicia was found hanging in her cell at a jail operated by the County. Efforts to resuscitate her were unsuccessful, and she was pronounced dead by paramedics who had been summoned to the jail. On April 29, 2022, a local law enforcement officer went to Thompson’s house in West Virginia and told her Alicia had died while in the custody of the County sheriff’s department but provided no details about the death. Thompson telephoned the sheriff’s department that same day and told a deputy coroner that Alicia “was depressed and had mental health problems after a good friend of hers committed suicide when she was 16 years old”; that she suspected Alicia was abusing methamphetamine based on “erratic behavior” and “paranoia”; and that she had not heard from Alicia since November 2021, when Alicia “talked about dead relatives as if they were still alive, and spoke of spending time with people who . . . could not possibly be with her.” Thompson spent the next two months trying unsuccessfully to get more information about Alicia’s death from the County sheriff’s department. By late June 2022, “it was becoming increasingly…