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Estel Wade Dunsmore

58 years old · died July 31, 2018 · Iowa Medical and Classification Center, Iowa

Estel Wade Dunsmore, 58, died on July 31, 2018, at the hospice care unit of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center, a state prison facility, where he had been assigned before his death. The Iowa Department of Corrections said he died of natural causes from end-stage liver disease. KCCI reported the department's account, which is the only account of his death in these sources.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Iowa Department of Corrections said he died of natural causes from end-stage liver disease.

Reported by: Iowa Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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