FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) - A Wisconsin man serving time at the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility in Iowa was charged Tuesday with killing a fellow inmate.
Thomas Andrew Daleske, 59, was found dead in his cell at about on June 14, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported. The Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be strangulation with blunt force injuries to the head and ruled it a homicide.
Investigators allege that inmate Eric Todd Hall had been inside Daleske’s cell shortly before the body was discovered. Hall, a 44-year-old from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was interviewed and purportedly admitted killing Daleske.
Hall was charged with first-degree murder in Webster County. He remains in custody at the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility.
Hall began serving prison time in April 2019 for felony convictions in related to break-ins at businesses in four counties.
Daleske had been serving a 45-year sentence for multiple charges related to sexual abuse and lascivious acts with a child from Warren County, and had been incarcerated since Oct. 31, 2000.
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