Audrey Caro Gomez
John Arthur Ackroyd, 67, died of apparent natural causes in his prison cell at about midnight on Dec. 30, 2016.
Ackroyd, whose address in court documents is on Airport Road in Sweet Home, was serving a life sentence in the Oraegon State Penitentiary for the 1978 murder of Kaye Turner in Camp Sherman.
In 2013, he was charged with murder related to the 1990 disappearance of 13-year-old Rachanda Pickle, his stepdaughter.
“Ensuring…