FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Contact: Nick Crawford, (515) 725-5707
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Prison Inmate Ronald Gonterman Dies

IOWA CITY – Ronald Gene Gonterman was pronounced deceased due to natural causes at 11:38 p.m. on Sunday, October 16, 2022 at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. Gonterman was 71 years old at the time of his death.

Gonterman had been serving a 19-year maximum term for the crime of Willful Injury - Causing Serious Injury and other charges from Johnson County. His sentence began on March 12, 2018