(IOWA CITY) – Officials with the Iowa Department of Corrections report 65-year old Russell Kenneth Fidler died from natural causes a little after 12:30-a.m. Saturday. Fidler, who had been incarcerated for the crime of Sexual Abuse, 2nd Degree from Audubon County, was pronounced dead at the University of Iowa Hospitals, where he had been taken due to a medical emergency.

Fidler’s incarceration in prison began on February 4, 2004.  Fidler, originally from Villisca, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, without parole, following a jury conviction for the second-degree sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl with cognitive mental disabilities and attention deficit disorder,  in April, 2003, at a residence in Kimballton.