Jealous husband, 62, who left his wife in need of a face transplant after attacking her with industrial-strength lye, dies in jail

A Vermont man who in a jealous rage doused his estranged wife with industrial-strength lye and burned her so badly she needed a face transplant has died at a Pennsylvania hospital.

Sixty-two-year-old Herbert Rodgers had been serving a 30- to 70-year prison sentence in Pennsylvania and died Monday.

Vermont officials say it appears Rodgers' death was 'related to a medical issue.'

Rodgers admitted breaking into Carmen Tarleton's house in 2007 intending to kill a man with whom he believed she was romantically involved.

He poured the toxic chemical over her and later said, 'I lost it, I just lost it.'

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