WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa — Officials say a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder died Wednesday morning at a southeast Iowa hospital.
Everett Lyon was pronounced dead due to natural causes at 3:58 a.m. at Great River Medical Center in West Burlington. He'd been sent there for a suspected heart attack.
The Iowa Corrections Department says Lyon was 71.
Lyon was convicted of first-degree murder in Marshall County.
Prison records say Lyon had been serving his time at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. His incarceration began on April 10, 1979.
