IOWA CITY – A man who insidiously killed a young girl in New York state and another young girl in Iowa died in an Iowa prison.
Charles Edward Lasage was pronounced dead due to chronic illness at approximately 2:45 p.m. on Sunday, December 16, 2018 at the University of Iowa Hospital, where he had been taken due to long-term illness. Lasage was 61 years old at the time of his death.
Lasage had been serving a lifetime sentence for the crime of Murder 1st Degree from Polk County. His incarceration began on January 25, 1993.
According to published reports, Lasage murdered an 11-year-old Niagara Falls, New York girl in 1986, convicted of murder, rape and sodomy. He also killed an 11-year-old girl in Iowa in 1991 in a similar way.