Courtesy photo Trimble Funeral Homes, findagrave.com

Alexander Sauceda was buried in the Rock Island National Cemetery in Moline, Illinois.

Alexander Torres Sauceda

Homicide

Alexander Torres Sauceda
23 YOA
Duck Creek Plaza
852 Middle Road
Bettendorf, IA
Scott County
October 11, 1973

In the early morning hours on Friday, October 12, 1973, Bettendorf police responded to an anonymous call from a man who said he’d just shot someone. Upon their arrival at the Duck Creek Plaza parking lot located at 852 Middle Road, officers found 23-year-old Alexander Torres Sauceda slumped in his vehicle’s front seat.

Scott County in Iowa

Bettendorf in Scott County

Sauceda — a Vietnam veteran who’d served with the U.S. Army — had been shot in the head. Four spent .22-caliber cartridges lay next to his body.

According to an article published April 3, 2010 by the Quad-Cities Dispatch-Argus, Mrs. Sauceda’s sister, Yolanda Sauceda, said her brother received several phone calls that night before leaving their house about 11:45 p.m. Sauceda did not tell his sister where he planned to go or whom he planned to meet.

Alexander Sauceda was born July 17, 1950, and buried with military rites at the Rock Island National Cemetery in Moline, Illinois.

If you have any information about Alexander Sauceda’s unsolved murder please contact the Bettendorf Police Department at 563-344-4015 or Iowa Cold Cases through our Contact form.

Sources:

• “More unsolved murders come to light,” Quad-Cities Online, Dispatch-Argus, April 3, 2010
• findagrave.com
• “Officials Probe Shooting Death,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, Oct. 12, 1973