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Warren John Nutter

84 years old · died December 8, 2021 · Iowa State Penitentiary, Lee County, Iowa

Warren John Nutter, 84, died on December 8, 2021, in a hospice room at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, where he had been housed because of chronic illness. The Iowa Department of Corrections said he died of natural causes. Sources report no further details about his life or family, and no dispute over the cause of death has been reported.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Iowa Department of Corrections said he died of natural causes while in hospice care for chronic illness.

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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