San Diego
A 70-year-old Pacific Beach woman who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1985 died of natural causes Tuesday, a prison spokesman said.
Dorothy Osborne, who was confined to a wheelchair after losing a leg to diabetes before the homicide, was convicted of hiring two men to kill her husband, a retired Navy commander.
Osborne had been in the infirmary recently, said John Laudeman, a spokesman for the California Institute for Women in Frontera, near Riverside.
The death occurred at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday, said Laudeman, and it was determined to be from natural causes. She has been there since May, 1986, Laudeman said.
Superior Court Judge Kenneth Johns sentenced Osborne to 25 years to life in prison after a jury found her guilty of the 1984 slaying.
The prison spokesman said Osborne was one of the women’s prison’s oldest inmates.
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