March 19, 2024

Man convicted of 2 murders kills himself in prison

CORALVILLE — The Department of Corrections said a man convicted last month of two murders in southern Iowa has killed himself in prison. The agency says staffers at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville found 37-year-old Jerry Ray Dillinger hanging from a bed sheet in his room late Wednesday. He later died in an Iowa City hospital. Dillinger was convicted of killing his former sister-in-law, Loretta Dillinger, and Michael Robinson, who was in a relationship with a Dillinger family member.

He was serving two life sentences.