Reuters: U.S.: Iowa mass murderer commits suicide in prison

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Iowa mass murderer commits suicide in prison Jun 28th 2013, 12:23 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Judges tell California to cut prisoner count by 10,000 Thu, Jun 20 2013 Prosecutors call accused mob boss Bulger a 'hands-on killer' Wed, Jun 12 2013 Italy's overcrowded prisons close to collapse Wed, Jun 12 2013 Analysis & Opinion Inside Siberia's prisons Last days in a Siberian prison File photos of Adam Matthew Moss released by the Sioux City Police Department on August 31, 2001. Credit: Reuters/Sioux City Police/HO By Kay Henderson DES MOINES | Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:23am EDT DES MOINES (Reuters) - An Iowa man who killed seven people in what Sioux City police described as the worst mass murder spree in city history has hanged himself in his cell at a state prison, state corrections department officials said on Thursday. Adam Matthew Moss, 35, was found on Wednesday evening hanging with one end of a bed sheet around his neck and the other end tied to a wall vent in his cell at a clinical care unit, the department said. The death was being ruled a suicide, said Fred Scaletta, assistant director of the Iowa Department of Corrections. An autopsy will be performed, and it could take two or three months to get results of toxicology tests, he said. Moss pleaded guilty to committing the seven murders and was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at a state prison in Fort Madison, Iowa. He had admitted he beat his girlfriend with a hammer and slit her throat and bludgeoned her five children to death with the hammer in August 2001. He also admitted killing a 58-year-old man he had worked for. Moss was staying in a unit that separates inmates with psychiatric issues from the general population. The sheet was pulled from his neck immediately after he was found, but he was already dead, the department statement said. The Lee County Medical Examiner arrived and confirmed the cause of death to be asphyxia due to suffocation. (Additional reporting by David Bailey; Editing by Carol Bishopric) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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