Death at Licking Prison appears to be from natural causes

West Plains, MO. – A man in prison for murder and serving time at the South Central Correctional Center has died. 

Orien Owens, age 52, was serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of Marlene Krabbenhoft in 2004. He was received in the Missouri Department of Corrections on September 26, 2006.

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Owens was pronounced deceased at South Cox Hospital in Springfield, Missouri at 5:16 p.m. on Friday, September 15th. The correctional center stated in a press release that Owens died of apparent natural causes.

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