diff --git a/trie/committer.go b/trie/committer.go
index 92163cdb3b..526c2c5439 100644
--- a/trie/committer.go
+++ b/trie/committer.go
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ func (c *committer) commit(path []byte, n node) node {
 		// otherwise it can only be hashNode or valueNode.
 		if _, ok := cn.Val.(*fullNode); ok {
 			collapsed.Val = c.commit(append(path, cn.Key...), cn.Val)
+
+			// Mark all internal nodes between parent and child as deleted.
+			for i := 1; i < len(cn.Key); i++ {
+				c.nodes.AddNode(append(path, cn.Key[:i]...), trienode.NewDeleted())
+			}
 		}
 		// The key needs to be copied, since we're adding it to the
 		// modified nodeset.
diff --git a/trie/iterator_test.go b/trie/iterator_test.go
index 57d1f06a16..1eab9983f5 100644
--- a/trie/iterator_test.go
+++ b/trie/iterator_test.go
@@ -378,6 +378,9 @@ func testIteratorContinueAfterError(t *testing.T, memonly bool, scheme string) {
 	)
 	if memonly {
 		for path, n := range nodes.Nodes {
+			if n.IsDeleted() {
+				continue
+			}
 			paths = append(paths, []byte(path))
 			hashes = append(hashes, n.Hash)
 		}