Iowa man gets life in prison for killing his grandmother 66-year-old woman was beaten to death in 2018. Posted: Dec 27, 2020 12:06 PM Posted By: Mike Bunge ONAWA, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his grandmother in 2018. District Judge Zachary Hindman sentenced Eliot Stowe last week in the beating death of 66-year-old Cheryl Stowe at her rural home in Castana in June 2018, the Sioux City Journal reported. Stowe declined to address the court before he received the mandatory sentence for first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Cheryl Stowe’s body was found wrapped in a rug and duct tape at the edge of a cornfield near her home on June 27, 2018, a day after her supervisor had asked authorities to check on her.