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Stephanie Diane Dowells, 62, was killed in November 2024, during an overnight family visit with her husband, David Brinson

Brinson was convicted in the 1990s of murdering four men during a robbery, and sentenced to four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole

Dowells was the second person in a year to die during a family visit at Mule Creek State Prison in four months

The wife of a California man serving life in prison for four murders died during an overnight visit with him last year — and now her husband is charged with killing her.

David Brinson, 55, was charged with murder on Aug. 13, in connection with the November 2024 strangulation of Stephanie Diane Dowells, 62, Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe tells PEOPLE.

On Nov. 13, 2024, shortly

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