Clarke County in Iowa

George Raymond Keller

Homicide

George Raymond Keller
61 YOA
Rural Route 34
Clarke County, IA
Case Number: 81-05701
September 28, 1981

Case Details provided by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation

On Tuesday, September 29, 1981, the body of George R. Keller was found dead at his rural Clarke County, Iowa home. According to the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office, the 61-year-old Keller — who’d been living alone in a makeshift apartment in his garage since a house fire destroyed his home a few years earlier — died from more than one gunshot wound to the head.

Officials believed Keller had been killed some time on Monday, September 28.

George Raymond Keller was born March 18, 1920 in the same county where he died. He was buried in the Bethel Chapel Cemetery in Liberty, Iowa.

According to findagrave.com, Keller served as a Tech 4 in the U.S. Army during World War II.

 Courtesy photo “Frank,” findagrave.com

George Raymond Keller is buried in the Bethel Chapel Cemetery in Liberty, Iowa.

Information Needed

If you have any information about George Keller’s unsolved murder, please contact the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office at 641-342-2914 or Iowa Cold Cases via our Contact form.

Sources:

• Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
• “Death seen as homicide,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, Sept. 30, 1981
• Social Security Death Index
• findagrave.com