Scott County in Iowa

Davenport in Scott County

John Gail Rude

Homicide

John Gail Rude
51 YOA
2500 block of Madison
Davenport, IA
Scott County
December 11, 1974

John Gail Rude, 51, was shot and killed in his Davenport, Iowa home on Wednesday, December 11, 1974. Rude’s wife, Dorothy, told police she discovered her husband’s body the morning of December 14 after returning home from a trip out of town.

Scott County Medical Examiner Dr. Roland Perkins reported that Rude died from a gunshot fired from a .22 or .25 caliber weapon.

About John Rude

John Gail Rude was born in Clear Creek, Jasper County, Iowa on October 16, 1923, to John Rude and Flossie Irene Neal.

Information Needed

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Sources:

• “Cold case murders 1935-2009,” Quad-Cities Online, Dispatch-Argus, March 27, 2010
• “Find Death is Homicide,” Ames Daily Tribune, Dec. 16, 1974
• “Wife finds man’s body,” Waterloo Courier, Dec. 16, 1974
• “Found dead,” The Muscatine Journal, Dec. 14, 1974
• Ancestry.com