Dubuque County in Iowa

Dubuque in Dubuque County

Kenneth Marvin Bouzard

Homicide

Kenneth Marvin Bouzard
53 YOA
Case Number: 7100481
Dubuque, Iowa
Dubuque County
April 23, 1971

Case summary by Nancy Bowers

On Friday April 23, 1971, the badly battered and crushed body of a man was found beneath a boxcar on railroad tracks in Dubuque. It was first believed the victim was run over by a train.

The dead man was identified as 53-year-old Kenneth Marvin Bouzard. The Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation had files on Bouzard under at least 12 different names. His permanent address was Ladysmith, Wisconsin.

Kenneth Bouzard

After an investigation, Dubuque Police Chief Robert O’Brien told the press, “Because of the massive injury head wounds there is a growing belief that the subject was fatally injured as the result of being struck by a piece of railroad equipment while sitting or lying near the tracks.”

The beating was classified as a criminal assault by another person or persons.

Kenneth Marvin Bouzard was born in 1918 in Wisconsin to Pennsylvania natives Carrie Martha Gagnon and William M. Bouzard. He served in the South Pacific during WWII. He was survived by his mother and a sister, Grace.

Information Needed

Questions and information about the unsolved 1971 murder of Kenneth Bouzard should be directed to the Sioux City Police Department at 712-279-6440 or Iowa Cold Cases through the Contact form.

Sources

• “Accident Was Cover For Murder,” Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Journal, May 4, 1971.
• Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
• “Marshall Hits Hasty Probes,” San Antonio Light, December 30, 1945.
• “Mystery Man Found Dead in Dubuque ‘Murdered,’” Cedar Rapids Gazette April 24, 1971.
• “Mystery Man Identified In Dubuque,” Waterloo Daily Courier, April 26, 1971.
• “Rail Accident Victim Slain?” Sheboygan Press, May, 4, 1971.
• “Wisconsin Man Murder Victim,” Waterloo Daily Courier, May 4, 1971.

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