CORALVILLE – The Iowa Department of Corrections reports 73-year-old Harry Edward Pedersen was pronounced dead due to natural causes (not covid-19 related), Friday afternoon. He died in a hospice room of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center.

Pedersen had been serving a 50-year sentence for multiple convictions the crime of Sexual Abuse 2nd Degree from Woodbury County. His sentence began on February 15, 1991.