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Richard Ruth

85 years old · died October 7, 2020 · Forest County, Pennsylvania

Richard Ruth, 85, died on October 7, 2020, in a state prison in Forest County, in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The death was reported to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, which lists the manner of death as natural causes.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: Pennsylvania 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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