Wesley Betts, an Iowa inmate being housed in a prison out of state under compact agreement, died in a nearby hospital at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday, October 9, 2012.
Betts died of natural causes. The preliminary cause of death is complications from non-small-cell lung cancer, which resulted in organ failure.
Betts was 63 years old and serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for Murder-1st degree from Scott County, which began on June 22, 1972, and a sentence of up to twenty-five years in prison for Murder-2nd degree from Lee County, which began on December 27, 1982.
