Benjamin Schreiber (criminal)

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Benjamin Edward Schreiber (1952 or 1953 – April 7, 2023) was an American criminal who murdered John Dale Terry, a 39-year-old man, near Agency, Iowa, on July 27, 1996. While serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he developed sepsis from severe kidney stones, requiring him to be resuscitated. He then unsuccessfully claimed that his life sentence ended as he had temporarily died. Schreiber bludgeoned Terry with an axe handle at an abandoned trailer south of Agency; Evelyn Tangie, Terry's girlfriend, was also at the scene. He was arrested on July 30 and held at the Wapello County Jail. While he sought for his charges to be dropped, he was found guilty on August 22, 1997. While imprisoned at the Iowa State Penitentiary, Schreiber unsuccessfully appealed his sentence and filed a lawsuit alongside three other prisoners claiming that being required to give a blood sample for DNA profiling was unconstitutional as the law was passed after they were convicted; the Iowa Supreme Court...

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