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Spencer Man Serving Life Sentence Dies In Prison

January 27, 2021

(Des Moines)– A Spencer man who was serving a life prison sentence for killing his wife has died in prison.

The Iowa Department of Corrections says 89-year-old Harold Duncan died Tuesday of complications related to COVID-19 and other pre-existing medical conditions. 

Duncan died in a hospice unit at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Oakdale.

He had been serving a life sentence after a jury convicted him of 1st degree murder in the death of his wife, Karen, in 2003.