The Madison County Coroner's office completed an autopsy Tuesday on Donald L. Korn, 60, who collapsed about 4:30 p.m. Monday at the Pendleton Correctional Facility.

Autopsy results will not be available until pathology reports are completed - in about two weeks, said a spokeswoman with the coroner's office.

Korn was pronounced dead Monday evening at a hospital, said Pam Pattison, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Corrections.

On June 17, a Butler County judge gave Korn a life sentence at the central Indiana prison for the 1974 rape and murder of Mildred Ruth Doench, 72, whose body was found in her Fairfield Township home with a mattock - a gardening tool similar to a pickax - embedded four inches into her skull.

Korn had once been a tenant in one of Doench's rental properties.

Korn was serving that life term along with a 25-year-to-life sentence for the 1975 rape and attempted murder of a 54-year-old Jeffersonville, Ind., woman.

Pattison said Korn had been in Indiana's prison system since May 1976, when he was sentenced in the 1975 case. He had been at the Pendleton prison since August 2001.

Frank Smith, of the Butler County Sheriff's Office, reopened the Doench case a few years ago and had Korn extradited to stand trial.

"I've never met a more cruel and sadistic animal than Korn," he said. "Would I say I'm sorry he's dead? No. I'm sorry for the family he left behind. Final justice has been served on this man."

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Enquirer reporter Reid Forgrave contributed to this report.