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Otha Lee Jordan

60 years old · died August 20, 2025 · Iowa

Otha Lee Jordan, 60, died on August 20, 2025, at the palliative care unit of the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center while in the custody of the Iowa Department of Corrections. The department's press release gives the time of death. It does not state a cause.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

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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