Holding Onto His Beliefs
Cecil Gaddy
He'd survived a near fatal car accident that left him with a broken back and confined to a wheelchair. When "friends" started taking advantage and his meds began to disappear, he'd finally had enough and confronted them. It cost him his life.
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EXECUTION STYLE
Below Zero
Des Moines Police determined no motive for the execution-style murder of 23-year-old Gene Williamson, even though they'd questioned Williamson in the past. Did the victim play a role in another motiveless homicide the year before in Illinois?
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Without a Trace
Where is Ben?
Around 10:30 p.m. on February 9, 2008, Ben Roseland left a friend’s house in the 400 block of 10th Avenue South, Clinton, Iowa, to walk a few blocks to a Hy-Vee grocery store located in the 900 block of South 4th Street. He never made it to the store.
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George Massouris
Featherweight Champ
He'd learned boxing in the Army and went on to become Featherweight Champion of the 1947 Southwest Iowa Golden Gloves Tournament, advancing to the semi-finals in the Midwest Tournament that same year. Three years later, the WWII vet and father of 3 was dead - shot three times at the base of the skull.
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Sheila Jean Collins
The Lone Girl
The attractive 18-year-old ISU freshman wanted to surprise her boyfriend with a visit home to Evanston, IL, and posted her details on the Memorial Union ride-board. When a male responded late one evening and said he needed to leave immediately, she excitedly accepted. Sheila was never seen alive again.
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Looking for Fossils
Finding Clues
Connie Ruddy, a 21-year-old mother of two, vanished from her Ida Grove home without a trace on February 10, 1997. Ruddy’s two-year-old and two-month-old children were found alone in the residence, unharmed. More than two years later, investigators finally had a lead.
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Father of Four
Unlikely Victim
He'd had dinner with an aunt and later drove down a neighborhood street when bullets suddenly sprayed Taveros "Dino" Galloway's GMC Yukon. Struck in the head, the gentle man eased his foot off the accelerator before his vehicle rolled and crashed in a yard.
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