Female inmate, 78, dies in Las Vegas hospital
A Pahrump woman serving 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder died Sunday at a Las Vegas hospital, the corrections department announced Monday.
Joan Corbyons, 78, died Sunday at Valley Hospital Medical Center, the Nevada Department of Corrections wrote in a release.
Corbyons was 68 when she was arrested in 2005 on charges of killing her daughter and several family pets at her family's home on Fox Run Court, the Pahrump Valley Times reported in December of that year.
Police in 2005 said Corbyons poured flammable liquid throughout the house and tried to set it on fire, the newspaper reported.
The deaths of Corbyons' daughter, identified as 41-year-old Marianne Corbyons by Joan Corbyons' ex-husband, and the family's pets were part of Joan Corbyons' plan, which also called for her to burn her house down and commit suicide, according to the Pahrump Valley Times.
Corbyons was committed from Clark County and had been jailed with the department of corrections since February 2007.
Her cause and manner of death will be released by the Clark County coroner's office.
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