A Montezuma man is now facing involuntary manslaughter charges in the 2020 overdose death of his fiancee.

Online court records accuse Chancy Grife of driving to the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area to buy potent drugs which he provided to his fiancee Abby Owens.

She was found dead on January 28, 2020 by Grife, who called 911.

A criminal complaint says Grife got morphine the day before and even warned Owens through text messages that it was very strong.

"This s*** is no joke. If you were to ever accidentally off yourself it would be this s***."

Authorities say their investigation showed Grife bought the morphine to give to Owens, knew it was extremely potent, knew she could easily overdose on what he gave her, and say he unintentionally caused her death.

Grife was arrested last week and is also facing seven other drug charges in the case.