Prison Inmate Dies; Convicted Of Three 1980 Tama Murders

An Iowa prison inmate who had been incarcerated since October 1980 for convictions in Tama County has died. The Iowa Department of Corrections said that Charles Cullor died in custody at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison on Saturday morning, at age 81.  Cullor had been serving life sentences for the killings of his estranged wife and two of her friends in Tama in April 1980.