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Lacy Kelley

66 years old · died May 5, 2018 · Iowa State Penitentiary, Lee County, Iowa

Lacy Kelley, 66, died on May 5, 2018, at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, where he had been housed in the prison's hospice room because of a chronic illness. The Iowa Corrections Department said he died of natural causes.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Iowa Corrections Department said he died of natural causes.

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

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