Brian Schappert

Brian Lee Schappert

Homicide

Brian Lee Schappert
22 YOA
Kum & Go Store
2743 Mount Vernon Rd. SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Linn County
Case Number: 9208179
September 8, 1989

Case summary by Jody Ewing

Linn County in Iowa

Cedar Rapids in Linn County

Brian Lee Schappert, a 22-year-old Coe College senior, was killed September 8, 1989, while working the midnight shift alone at a Cedar Rapids Kum & Go in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Schappert, still in the first week of his senior year at Coe, apparently was a victim of a robbery at the 2743 Mount Vernon Rd. SE store; his throat had been slashed.

A cab driver who stopped to buy gas discovered Schappert’s body about 3:30 a.m.

No one has ever been charged in his murder.

More information coming soon. (And I truly apologize for the “rough draft notes” that had been included here earlier. The document inadvertently got uploaded to the server during a website update when it clearly wasn’t yet ready for publication.)

Sources and References:

• Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
• Coe College Honors Convocation, May 8, 2010
• Kidnapping Not Cedar Rapids’ First Case of Violence at Convenience Stores, KCRG-TV, May 18, 2010
• Kidnapping victim returns to scene of crime with police, Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 18, 2010
• “2 men, 1 teen arrested after robbery,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, Nov. 15, 1996
• “Clerk’s murder unsolved,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, Sept. 23, 1996
• “Woman calls police with tip on murder,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, Oct. 1, 1993
• “Tip revives ’89 murder probe,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, Sept. 30, 1993