February 10, 2021
Anamosa, Ia- The man at the center of a complex double murder case in Muscatine County in February of 1979 has died in prison.
Radio Iowa’s Dar Danielson reports that the Iowa Department of Corrections reports 69-year-old Bryan Kirby Barrett died after an “unexpected medical emergency” at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. Barrett was serving a life sentence in the shooting deaths of Cindy Walker of Muscatine and Carol Willits of Illinois.
Walker’s body was found in the middle of a county road, and Willits’ body was found nearby in a car. Willits was blindfolded and left what appeared to be a suicide note. Investigators found a 100-thousand dollar insurance policy for Walker with Barrett as the beneficiary and then convinced a jury he staged the murder-suicide scene involving the two women.
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