Mark Olsen
Mark Olsen, 59, was held in the custody of the Iowa Department of Corrections at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility in Iowa. Corrections officials said he was found unresponsive on a bathroom floor on Sunday afternoon, January 24, 2016, and was declared dead at a nearby hospital at 1:20 p.m. The department said an autopsy would be done to determine the cause of death. Officials believed he died of natural causes, and the autopsy was pending when the report was published.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Iowa Department of Corrections says he was found unresponsive on a bathroom floor and believes he died of natural causes, pending an autopsy.
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.