(CORALVILLE) – Officials with the Iowa Department of Corrections report a man serving a life sentence out of Pottawattamie County for the crime of Murder in the 1st Degree, has died in prison. Inmate Kevin Richard Johnson was pronounced dead due to natural causes at 6:33-p.m. on Monday. He died in a hospice room of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center, where he had been housed due to chronic illness. Johnson was 64 years old at the time of his death. His 1st degree murder sentence began December 3rd, 1980.

The body of Kevin Johnson Jr. was found July 17, 1989, buried in a wooded area behind the family’s home in Council Bluffs, less than three weeks after he’d been killed. An autopsy showed the 2-month-old died of blunt trauma to his head.