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Convicted Killer Mickey Patterson Dies in Prison

By: Nick Ochsner
Updated: November 29, 2012
Convicted killer Mickey Patterson died Wednesday in a Texas prison.

Lubbock District Attorney Matt Powell said Patterson died of natural causes.

Patterson was convicted of killing Kay Harrelson in September 2011. He is also accused of killing Peggy Merriman. The three worked together at the Lubbock State School.

Powell said Patterson died at the Clements Unit in Amarillo, where he had been housed for about a month.

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