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Jan. 6, 2020Iowa City, Iowa | By: Jeremy Werner
IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Corrections said a man imprisoned for beating a woman to death has died.
According to a IDOC news release, Rick Bird died from natural causes on Jan. 1 at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Corrections officials said that Bird was 72 at the time of his death.
Bird had been serving a life sentence after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of his girlfriend, 47-year-old Linda Trenkle, in Creston, Iowa, in 1997.
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