Felicitas Terrill
73 YOA
314 Clinton St.
Muscatine, IA
Muscatine County
Case # 86-01868
April 14, 1986
On the morning of April 14, 1986, the body of 73-year-old Felicitas Terrill was found in her Muscatine home with four gunshot wounds to the head.
Sharon Renfro — the victim’s daughter — said when she tried to contact her mother and couldn’t reach her, she called police and asked them to do a welfare check.
According to Muscatine police, Terrill had lain in her home for several hours before her body was discovered. There were signs of an intruder and the motive appeared to be burglary.
Felicitas Margaret Daniels was born August 4, 1912 in Columbus City, Louisa County, Iowa, to Johanna Furlong and Frank Daniels.
Courtesy photo findagrave.comShe had three brothers — Joseph I., John Francis, and Leo P. Daniels — as well as two sisters, Mary E. Daniels Duncan and Cecelia E. Daniels Smith.
On June 8, 1940 in Muscatine, she married Robert Wesley Terrill. They had a daughter, Sharon Kay Terrill Renfro.
She is buried in the Columbus City Cemetery.
If you think you have information that could help solve this case please call Sgt. Mike Bailey of the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office at 563-263-6055 or Detective Mark Lawrence of the Muscatine Police Department at 563-263-9922.
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