Wyoming State Penitentiary Inmate Convicted of Murder Dies
Gary Lee Belden, 67, died at the Carbon County Hospital in Rawlins on Monday.
He was born in Springfield, Ill., on June 27, 1953.
According to Department of Corrections policy, an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death. The department does not release protected health information.
Belden was convicted of first-degree murder in Lincoln County on Dec. 4, 2000. District Court Judge John Troughton sentenced Belden to life imprisonment.
The case began shortly after 8 p.m. Aug. 29, 1985, when Terrie Smith left the trailer home she shared with Nancy Lane to go to work near Diamondville, according to the summary of the case from Wyoming Supreme Court and 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals records.