Officials with the Iowa Dept. of Corrections said Tuesday, that a man who began serving a life sentence for a 1976 murder in Pottawattamie County, has died in prison. 65-year old Kenneth Boyd died Monday at the hospice care unit at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville. Boyd’s death was due to complications from renal failure.

Boyd was serving a life sentence for the 1976 Pott. County slaying of Omaha resident Charles Sallis. Boyd was convicted along with Charles Reese and Sallis’ wife, Katherine. Another man, Isaiah Jerry Jones, initially was charged with murder, too, but the charge was dropped when he agreed to testify for the prosecution. Boyd and Reese were from Gary, Indiana. Jones was from Omaha.