For Immediate Release: Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025
Media Contact: Zach Carlyle | doc.media@iowa.gov | (515) 415-7235

CORALVILLE, Iowa â€“ Leon Robert Tice Jr. was pronounced dead at 11:14 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center. Tice was 84 years old at the time of his death.

Tice had been serving a maximum term for crimes from Pottawattamie County. His sentence began on Sept. 27, 1963.

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