Fred Coste

Frederick Leonard Coste

Homicide

Frederick L. Coste
47 YOA
312 Second Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids, IA
Linn County
October 15, 1959

Courtesy photo Cedar Rapids Gazette

A chalk line inside the loan interview cubicle shows where Frederick Coste’s body was discovered. Coste, 47, had been stabbed six times in the chest.

On October 15, 1959, Frederick “Fred” Coste, 47, was found lying face-up in a pool of blood inside his loan interview cubicle at the Family Finance Corporation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he worked as the company’s manager.

Married with one young daughter, Coste had been punched in the left eye before being stabbed six times in the chest.

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