(Iowa City, IA) — A Des Moines man serving a life prison sentence for beating his girlfriend to death died Friday. The Iowa Department of Corrections says 54-year-old Christopher Michael Phipps Senior died from natural causes at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. Phipps was serving his first-degree murder sentence a the Iowa State Penitentiary. Phipps had called police in September of 2009 and said he accidentally killed his girlfriend Melissa Dean in the trailer they shared after Dean told him she was leaving him. Phipps claimed at his trial that he was intoxicated and was trying to defend himself against Dean.
Des Moines Man Serving Life In Prison Dies
May 24, 2021 | 10:45 AM
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