Inmate serving time for crimes in Taylor County dies in prison

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February 25th, 2025 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – A Bedford man who was convicted of killing his mother in 2020 has died in prison.  The Iowa Department of Corrections reports that 36-year-old Christian Andrew May died Sunday morning at the University of Iowa Hospitals. The Department of Corrections did not give a cause of death.

May was serving a 30-year sentence in the stabbing death of his 62-two-year-old mother, Penny Sue Godfirnon, of Bedford. May began his sentence on July 18th, 2023.