For Immediate Release: Monday, Feb. 10, 2025
Media Contact: Zach Carlyle | doc.media@iowa.gov | (515) 415-7235

FORT DODGE, Iowa – Joseph Anthony Houston was pronounced dead at 11:40 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025 at UnityPoint Health Hospital. Houston was 46 years old at the time of his death.

Houston had been serving a life term for crimes from Polk County. His sentence began on June 13, 1997.

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