George Earl Dean
55 YOA
Mapleton, IA
Monona County
Case # 6600722
June 19, 1966
On Sunday evening, June 19, 1966, George Earl Dean was found deceased in the street in front of his Mapleton, Iowa home. Dean had suffered fractured facial bones and fractured ribs on the left side, leading officials to believe he had been struck by a car.
The investigation into his death revealed he had likely been having an affair with a woman known as “Mrs. Carley,” who also resided in Mapleton.
Mrs. Carley’s account of what took place leading up to George Dean’s death has been muddled and contradictory at best.
According to the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Mrs. Carley told responding officers that she had driven past the Dean residence that Sunday evening, and while driving by was stopped by Mr. Dean, who asked her to go call a doctor because he was sick. Mrs. Carley stated that she drove to the home of a “Mr. Knife,” telephoned the doctor from Mr. Knife’s home, and then returned to Dean’s home where she found him deceased.
The DCI, however, had received reports that Mr. Dean was found deceased in the street in front of his home.
Mrs. Carley became a person of interest in the case, and officials asked her to come down to the Omaha office on June 30, 1966, where they planned to question her. Some time during that day or evening, Mrs. Carley went to the home of Mr. William Gregorson, awakening him. She asked Mr. Gregorson to drive her down to Omaha to “see her husband because she was being questioned about Dean’s death” and wanted her husband present during the questioning.
Gregorson said he would take her, but was curious as to why he needed to drive her there, since Mrs. Carley did have her own vehicle and knew how to drive. She told Mr. Gregorson she did not like driving in Omaha.
After the two arrived in Omaha, officials also questioned Mr. Gregorson in efforts to find out what Mrs. Carley might have said about the incident. He told investigators that Mrs. Carley told him that Dean had stopped her that day and asked her to go call a doctor. Gregorson said Mrs. Carley also told him she had then gone back to her own home to call for the doctor, and after making the call had gone back to the Dean residence where she found George Dean dead.
George Earl Dean was born July 28, 1910 in Monona County, Iowa, to Caroline Claude and George Thomas Dean. He had five brothers — Wilbur W., Robert Vernon, Claude Eugene, Glen H., and Leo Allen Dean — as well as two sisters, Dorothy Maxine Dean Rose and Florence S. Dean Leetch.
On December 12, 1932, he married Luella Harriet Hollister, who passed away in 2000 in Sioux City, Iowa. They had two daughters.
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