Principal Suicide

Elementary principal jumps off bridge, commits suicide

The woman who jumped to her death Thursday afternoon from the tallest bridge in Ohio was the principal of a Clermont County elementary.

At approximately 4:40 p.m., Eileen M. Murphy, 55, of Cincinnati, parked her 2002 Honda Accord in the right lane of northbound Interstate 71, near the south end of the Jeremiah-Morrow Bridge, got out and jumped off into the Little Miami River some 240 below.