FORT DODGE, Iowa — An Eau Claire, Wisconsin, man was arrested Tuesday on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the death of a convicted child molester in the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility.
Eric Todd Hall, 44, an inmate of the Fort Dodge facility, was charged in the death of Thomas Andrew Daleske, 59, also an inmate, who was found dead in his cell at about 5:15 p.m. Monday, June 14.
Daleske was serving a 45-year sentence for multiple charges related to sexual abuse and lascivious acts with a child from Warren County. He had been incarcerated since Oct. 31, 2000.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation assisted the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility and Webster County Medical Examiner with the death investigation and determined that Hall was inside Daleske’s cell shortly before the body was discovered.
Hall was interviewed and admitted to killing Daleske.
The Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy and determined the cause of Daleske’s death to be strangulation with blunt force injuries to the head. The death was ruled a homicide.
Hall was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in Webster County District Court and remains in custody at the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility, where he is serving a five-year sentence for burglary.
Hopefully, his commissary account will always have ample money to remind him that some are thankful for what he did. The pedophile was going after the young, vulnerable inmates (ask anyone doing time at Fort Dodge right now), and it was left to this guy to protect them while the authorities turned a blind eye.