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Cold Cases in Bremer County, IA
*Please Note: The cases listed below are within Bremer County but may fall under a city
police department's jurisdiction. They are included here for cross-reference
purposes. More specific information may be found on each victim's
individual page.
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Homicide: Marshal William Lawrence Meadows, 36, was shot and killed on Tuesday, January 24, 1961, while investigating a burglary in progress at the Hartmann Packing Plant in Plainfield, Iowa. |
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Homicide: On Tuesday morning, June 15, 1971, the partially clad body of 14-year-old Valerie Lynn Klossowsky of Waverly was found on a creek bank under a bridge on a lonely country road three miles west of Denver, IA. The Waverly-Shell Rock Junior High School student had been strangled. |
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Homicide: Julie Ann Benning, 19, disappeared from Waverly, IA, the day after Thanksgiving on November 28, 1975. A Butler County road maintenance worker found her nude and decomposed body in a roadside ditch along a quiet country road about a mile northeast of Shell Rock on March 18, 1976. |
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Homicide On Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1976, the nude, beaten body of 20-year-old Maria "Lisa" Peak was found lying face down under a lone cottonwood tree in a ditch a quarter mile north of Waverly's city limits. Peak had been sexually assaulted and died of suffocation and a broken neck. |
If you have any information about any of these crimes, please contact the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010 or e-mail dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us.
Page last updated: May 17, 2010
