WOMAN HANGS SELF IN MOTEL AFTER CONCERT BINGE

Troubles Continue To Follow Widespread Panic Tour

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A Minnesota woman who had been following a popular
Athens band from city to city hanged herself at a Homewood hotel after a
concert.

Jennifer Susan Moe, 24, used a hotel shower curtain to hang herself from a
second-story balcony at a Red Roof Inn after attending a concert by
Widespread Panic, said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Jay Glass.

Moe's friends told police she had been smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol
and taking Ecstasy and cocaine. She was discovered at about 9:30 a.m.
Saturday, suspended from the outside railing at the rear of the hotel,
Glass said. She left no suicide note.

Moe wasn't registered at the hotel. She went there to party with friends
after Friday night's concert at Oak Mountain Amphitheater, authorities
said. She had been moving from concert to concert.

''She'd been following them for a long time,'' her father, Jerry Moe, told
the Mobile Register for a Tuesday story.

Police said Erica Young, 29, of Chattanooga died Saturday night after
taking Ecstasy. She collapsed about 10 p.m. inside the amphitheater during
the concert and died minutes later. Shelby County Coroner Doug Ballard Jr.
said Monday it appeared Young died of a drug overdose.

About 200 people were arrested on drug charges during a three-night
undercover crackdown at the series of rock concerts.

About half of the arrests at the outdoor show of Widespread Panic were
felony drug cases. The rest involved misdemeanor drug and underage drinking
charges.

The crackdown, called Operation Don't Panic, was conducted Friday, Saturday
and Sunday nights at the Oak Mountain Amphitheatre by agents of the state
alcoholic beverage control board and Pelham police.

Police cracked down on Widespread Panic fans during a Savannah concert last
week, mostly for drug offenses.