FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, December 22, 2023
Contact: Sarah Fineran, (515) 725-5738
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Prison Inmate Julia Cox Dies

MITCHELLVILLE – Julia Ann Cox was pronounced dead due to natural causes at 10:10 a.m. on Thursday, December 21, 2023 in a hospice room of the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. Cox was 58 years old at the time of her death.

Cox had been serving a 7-year maximum term for the crime of Abuse of a Corpse and Accessory After the Fact from Poweshiek County. Her sentence began on April 5, 2022.