FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, August 14, 2023
Contact: Nick Crawford, (515) 725-5707
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Prison Inmate Georgia Grau Dies

MITCHELLVILLE â€“ Georgia Eileen Grau was pronounced dead due to an unexpected medical emergency at 7:24 a.m. on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women. Foul play is not suspected. Grau was 60 years old at the time of her death.

An autopsy will be conducted to determine cause of death.

Grau had been serving a 10-year maximum term for the crimes of Reckless Use of a Firearm with Bodily Injury and Willful Injury - Causing Bodily Injury from Woodbury County. Her sentence began on January 19, 2021.