WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) - A prisoner serving a life sentence for murder died Wednesday morning at a southeast Iowa hospital, officials said.
Everett Lyon was pronounced dead due to natural causes at 3:58 a.m. at Great River Medical Center in West Burlington, where he had been sent for a suspected heart attack. Lyon was 71, the Iowa Corrections Department said in a news release.
Lyon had been convicted of first-degree murder in Marshall County. Prison records say Lyon had been serving his time at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. His incarceration began on April 10, 1979.
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