For Immediate Release: Monday, March 31, 2025
Media Contact: Zach Carlyle | doc.media@iowa.gov | (515) 415-7235
CORALVILLE, Iowa – Michael Linn Schawitsch was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 30, 2025 in a hospice room of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center. Schawitsch was 61 years old at the time of his death.
Schawitsch had been serving a 42-year term for crimes from Lee County. His sentence began on March 7, 2000.
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